Tumblred week(s) of 2008apr11

[I can't get Yahoo Pipes Cleaner Greasemonkey script to work properly to clean up yahoo's messy coding.]
[aging] Re: road colouring theorem
Subject: Re: road colouring theorem Hooray for those of us in our 60s! Like we suddenly turn brain dead? SW On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:51 PM, M Pamela Bumsted wrote: “March 28, 2008 [...]

Tumblr for week of 2008mar15

[bird flu, public inv] KLTV8 wins national award for bird flu program
KLTV8, the city of Lakewood’s cable station, and its partners have been honored with a 2008 Bronze Telly Award for the educational program Bird Flu: … http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Milestones/Awards/Story~442044.aspx We could use a multimedia campaign regionally. Risk communication…

[math] 3.14 and the rest
jc saw this story on [...]

Readings for analysis and interpretation, sciencing

I acquired the original set of readings through recommendations from my Oxford tutor. I added others from my own experience, especially browsing authentic bookstores and open stack libraries. I combined them into a set for teaching a university course in statistical methods– Readings for quantitative analysis and interpretation in biocultural science, human biology, anthropology
The [...]

Sources of indigenous peoples info from Librarians’ Internet Index

LII is such a great resource, available through RSS feed.
Librarians’ Internet Index: New This Week New and newly-discovered Web sites for librarians and everyone else, updated every Thursday morning. See more resources on our site

http://lii.org/

CBC News In Depth: Aboriginal Canadians
News and feature stories about Canada’s aboriginal population of Indians, Métis, and Inuit, which “is [...]

Sciencing resources

Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub has a pointer to a useful web log on critical thinking and several suggested books and readings. I have not read these items but the Bathtub is a reliable fount of information.

Teaching critical thinking, “further reading” -
http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/ teaching-critical-thinking-further-reading/

[I have a list I use in teaching, but haven't finished bloggifying it. Better [...]

On the Nature of Quantitative Analysis

The approach to a problem can be either analytic or synthetic. The analytic method is characterized by breaking down; the synthetic method, by building up. The analytic method seeks to find the pertinent factors of a problem or to identify the components of a material under study, to separate these factors and components, and to [...]

Pay for performance

What is supposed to work in schools, similarly with alcohol control and Wall Street, seems to operate on belief rather than an examination of what is and then formulating testable ideas on what, if anything, needs doing. Belief is an important factor in “what works”. However, critical thinking and careful use of statistics, [...]

Adverse birth outcomes associated with open dumpsites in Alaska Native Villages

Adverse birth outcomes associated with open dumpsites in Alaska Native Villages.
Gilbreath S, Kass PH
Am J Epidemiol. 2006 Sep 15; 164(6): 518-28

This retrospective cohort study evaluated adverse birth outcomes in infants whose birth records indicated maternal residence in villages containing dumpsites potentially hazardous to health and environment. Birth records from 1997 to 2001 identified 10,073 eligible [...]