N=1: What can we learn from a case report
Warning: this blog is on a sensitive subject of adult themes. In medicine a case report is when a detailed description of a patient is published because something can be learnt from this one...
· by Jack Auty · 31 Oct, 2018
Warning: this blog is on a sensitive subject of adult themes. In medicine a case report is when a detailed description of a patient is published because something can be learnt from this one...
· by Jack Auty · 26 Mar, 2018
Research that focuses on the fundamental, nitty gritty, seemingly inapplicable, minutia of the world is not very appealing or engaging, and on the surface seems like a waste of taxpayer money. But fundamental research...
· by Jack Auty · 15 Sep, 2017
Polls can be wrong. But the Brexit polls had the race at 50/50 right before the election and that was a pretty good estimate of what happened (1). The Trump/Hillary polls estimated about a...
· by Jack Auty · 6 Jan, 2017
More than half the world was intellectually disabled prior to 1917 CE….. if you extrapolate the Flynn effect. This blog will be an interesting dive into IQ, intellectual disability, crime, time travel and the...
· by Jack Auty · 19 Dec, 2016
New year’s resolutions- the Babylonians did it, the Romans did it and now we do it; with one survey suggesting that this ancient tradition is still popular reporting that over 40% of Americans take...
· by Jack Auty · 2 Aug, 2016
There was a recent piece in New Zealand news about mass governmental censorship of scientists. Starting with apocalyptic images of the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident to instill fear, they painted a picture of...
· by Jack Auty · 15 Apr, 2016
Every single life-form on earth has formed from genetic modification. 4.1 – 3.8 billion years ago the first life form on earth emerged from the primordial mud (unless we are aliens) and since then...
· by Jack Auty · 19 Mar, 2016
This week I’ve got a darker blog for everyone (sorry). But I had to post it because gosh darn I hate ticking boxes and I really hate it when people create more boxes to...
· by Tristan Wadsworth · 3 Mar, 2016
The greeks said “Know thyself” (but they said it in ancient Greek). Socrates apparently also said “the unexamined life isn’t worth living” but then he drank a bunch of poison, so what does he...
· by Jack Auty · 21 Feb, 2016
Sometimes I’ve heard things like Dolphins are the only other animals that have sex for pleasure. Many people and scientists believe this without questioning it in the slightest. But here is the question that...