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Category Archives: Science
Kaggle causality hacking contest
Big data is already a lot like magic. Based on your spending habits Mastercard are supposed to know that you are getting a divorce before you do, computers are better at predicting good vintages than wine experts, facebook and google … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Science, Uncategorized
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Using search data to find drug side effects
Along the same lines as Google Flu Trends, researchers at Microsoft, Stanford and Columbia University are investigating whether search data can be used to find interactions between drugs. They recently found an interaction.Using automated software tools to examine queries by … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Psychopharmacology, Technology
Tagged Interactions Between Drugs, Recreational Drugs
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And now for something completely different..
It’s… the Baby Laughter project. I’m not entirely sure why I haven’t mentioned this before but readers of this blog might be interested in one of my other projects. In my day job, I am a baby scientist at Birkbeck … Continue reading
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Your Brain on Alcohol – Explained
Here’s a wonderfully little video about what alcohol does to your brain. It is the latest in a sequence of short science videos made by ASAP Science. A previous video explained Marijuana. This one covers a lot of things very … Continue reading
Posted in Alcohol, Brain, Experience, Films, Psychopharmacology
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The surprising effectiveness of medical marijuana
The other highly surprising thing I learnt at the recent SSDP UK conference was just how amazingly effective cannabis is as a medicine. Obviously, I knew that marijuana was available as ‘medicine’ in some countries and US states. But I largely … Continue reading
Imaging the brain on psychedelics – Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris
Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris is one of the first researchers in 40 years to be allowed to investigate the effects of psychedelic drugs. He used a FMI brain imager to study the resting state activation in the brains of volunteers how … Continue reading
ISCD Student Smart Drug Study
The Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs have a new survey. They are interested in student attitudes to smart drugs and cognitive enhancement. Please share this with any students you know. This project studies students’ attitudes and experiences around smart drugs … Continue reading
Why open data is good for science.
I recently applied to the Open Knowledge Foundation for one of their Panton Fellowships. They are giving a number of £8,000 Fellowships to researchers who are trying to promote open science and open data. I got through the initial screening … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Science
Tagged breaking convention, Open Data, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Science, Panton Fellows, Panton Fellowship
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Drugs Meter smartphone app
Dr. Adam Winstock The psychiatrist behind the Global Drugs Survey is gearing up to launch a phone based “Drugs Meter “. Here’s how the Guardian describe it: A new digital application – called drugs meter – attempts to provide people who use … Continue reading
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LOLsevier
Welcome to LOLsevier - A new tumblr photoblog dedicated to taking the piss out of rapacious scientific publisher Elsevier: LOLsevier. Why are scientists & academics picking on a poor defenceless journal publisher? See these articles to find out. ( & thanks … Continue reading
