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24 avril 2017

Can pre-school children learn to do science?

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Can pre-school children learn to do science?
Jenny Rohn, The Guardian, 2017/04/05
Of course the answer to the question in the headline is 'yes'. If you've ever tested the water with a toe before diving in, you've done science. But what, exactly, is science? This article is a bit weaker on this front. More...

21 avril 2017

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Michael Nielsen, 2017/03/13

Between meetings with notaries today I was wondering to myself whether work had been done on using one neural network to train another neural network. More...

21 avril 2017

5 Topics That Are "Forbidden" to Science

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 5 Topics That Are "Forbidden" to Science
Paul Ratner, Big Think, 2017/03/01
This article lists five areas that are 'forbidden to science'. I find it interesting that I am in some way implicated in all five. Here they are (and how I'm implicated):

  • messing with nature (yet I wear glasses, use a CPAP, and take various drugs)
  • engineering the climate (yet I do it every time I get in my car)
  • robot ethics (yet I envision and work on ethical robot tutors)
  • secure communication technology (yet I encrypt my email and work at a secure lab)
  • universal access to science (yet I work on that every day)

Now, yes, my involvement isn't exactly what they're talking about. But that's a technical limit, not an administrative limit. More...

20 avril 2017

15 Things We Can Do To Stand Up For Science!

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 15 Things We Can Do To Stand Up For Science!
Alice Meadows, The Scholarly Kitchen, 2017/02/27
I don't think this is a bad list of things, though I would have been more reluctant to recommend specific products and services the way this article does (or, maybe, would have recommend more than one in each category). More...

19 avril 2017

Scientists’ unions march for secure jobs

By Andrew MacDonald. The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the CSIRO Staff Association have called on their members to join March for Science events happening around Australia on Saturday 22 April 2017. More...

19 avril 2017

NTEU supports 22 April Marches for Science

By Jeannie Rea. The National Tertiary Education Union is pleased to endorse March for Science events being held around the country on Saturday 22 April, and encourages members and friends to get involved in their cities. More...

18 avril 2017

Science & You event, 4-6 May, Montreal (Canada)

Science & You, an international event on science communication created by the Université de Lorraine, will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Canada from 4 to 6 May 2017. More...

17 avril 2017

22 avril, Marche pour les Sciences

Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. Initiée aux États-Unis en réponse aux multiples prises de positions anti-scientifiques du nouveau président des Etats-Unis, la Marche pour les Sciences (March for Science) aura lieu le 22 avril 2017, Jour international de la Terre (ONU), et mobilisera près de 300 défilés dans plus de 20 pays. Voir l'article...

15 avril 2017

Images that show another side of science – in pictures

The Guardian homeBy. These are the winning entries from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council photo competition 2017, which allows researchers and doctoral students to share another side of their work. More...

14 avril 2017

Marching for science and its importance for democracy

By Emmanuelle Perez Tisserant and Philippe Dagneaux. The election as president of Donald Trump in the United States has led to much anxiety among scientists. The positions taken by the new president and his team have led to concerns that scientific findings made over past decades by researchers on the other side of the Atlantic would be thrown into question. These concerns have now become certainties. More...

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