Month: October 2016

• Hide and Seek

  I guess the hunt is never over. Just when you think you’re winning, a sleeper cell surfaces, one you hadn’t even suspected, and closets itself somewhere you’d never think to look –an endless game of hide and seek. A Samsara of possibilities. An yet, what would be the thrill of exploration if you knew all […]

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  October 26, 2016

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  1978 Nobel Prize in Physics, answers, BBC news, cart before the horse, Cosmic Microwave Background, inductive logic, Penzias and Wilson, post hoc, post hoc fallacy, questions, Scientific method, Through a glass darkly, Women’s Health issues

• Earthing Unearthed

  Sometimes I feel disconnected. It’s almost as if I have been traveling on a highway all my life, largely unaware of the myriad roads that emanate from it. Unaware of the different coloured horizons that have been hiding out there all along. Or is skulking sometimes a better descriptor? Every so often I come across […]

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  October 19, 2016

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  barefoot walking, Carl Sagan, Critical Thinking, earthing, electrons, Hamlet, homeopathy, Karl Popper, philosophy, refutability in science, Science, Shakespeare, Skeptics Society, Wikiversity

• Women are from Earth

  Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus –remember that book? It was published in 1992, and although it was really talking about relationship issues between the sexes, it seems to hint at other, more physiological differences that underpin the disparity -differences that have sometimes been overlooked, or perhaps ignored, in many pharmaceutical drug studies. […]

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  October 12, 2016

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  British Journal of Sports Medicine, CBC article, CIHR, control groups, hormonal cycles, inadvertent fetal exposure to drug, Men are from Mars Women are from Venus, menstrual cycles, sex bias in clinical studies, sex bias in laboratory animals, USFDA, Women in studies, women’s health

• Statistics and Gender

  Statistics, the collation, analysis and ultimately, the interpretation of data, have never been easy – at least for me. They have never reached the level of intuitive and, indeed, have barely climbed past manipulative in my head. And I readily admit to occasional cognitive dissonance even when they are used to support what I already […]

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  October 5, 2016

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  BBC news, Center for Global Development, cognitive dissonance, Confirmation bias, David McNair, ILO, International Labour Organisation, Macbeth, Mayra Buvinic, Megan O’Donnell, One Campaign, Shakespeare, Statistics, United Nations