Aug
31
MEA CULPA AGAIN (not from me!)
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My friend Marco rightly made a correction following a recent comment made by James Randi, about omeophathy, in SWIFT. Here are Marco’s comments :
I watched the video of your talk at Google with pleasure, but I was a bit surprised by your reference to Switzerland. Is really a disproportionate amount of woo-woo things coming from home?
Hahnemann was not Swiss but German, and I don’t think he ever lived in Switzerland. And even if he did, given the state of
medicine at the time, late 18th - early 19th centuries, when blood-letting was a cure, his idea was wrong but worth a try, not that far from contemporary Jenner’s [valid] discovery of vaccination. Avogadro’s Law was published in 1811, though the value of Avogadro’s Number was only estimated much later, in 1865.I′ve been looking for the date when double-blind testing was invented. It looks like it wasn’t available to Hahnemann at the time, but that it was invented in 1835…to debunk homeopathy! :
The organizers concluded that the symptoms or changes which the homeopaths claimed to observe as an effect of their medicines were the fruit of imagination, self-deception and preconceived opinion if not fraud.
Homeopathy gave us randomized double-blind testing: how sweet!
Only 170 years later (2005) the Swiss government removed homeopathy and other quack medicines from the list of treatments covered in mandatory health insurance (all were provisionally included in 1999). Only acupuncture remains listed. Progress! Here in Switzerland!
And (part of…) Randi’s answer 
:
Sorry, Switzerland
> Read it
Aug
31
These are my links for August 26th through August 30th:
- Facebook Photos plugin for WordPress - This WordPress plugin provides easy access to your Facebook photos by allowing you to easily post them to your blog
- Sales funnel explanation - Clear and concise explanation of the “Sales funnel”
- Karl Pilkington - The official Website of the round headed guy
- Eurydice - Information network on education in Europe - Réseau d’information sur l’éducation en Europe - Eurydice is an institutional network for gathering, monitoring, processing and circulating reliable and readily comparable information on education systems and policies throughout Europe.
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) - The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
- UNECE Statistics - LINKS TO OFFICIAL STATISTICS FOR EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA - National Statistical Agencies of the UNECE Member Countries and members of the Conference of European Statisticians
- Calvin & Hobbes archive -
- Hotel Apartment Paradiso Split -
- The 40 coolest free applications around - Everyone loves free software (open source or otherwise) and this list demonstrates quite how many excellent applications can be had for free. If you thought you needed to buy something
Aug
30
Content Aware Image Resizing
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This has been published around and around in the last days but I can’t resist to publish it again as it’s really a stunning demonstration. Furthermore, it seems that Shai Avidan, co-creator of this development has joined Adobe so expect interesting new features in software such as Photoshop !
Aug
30
Battle at Kruger
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Check out this amazing video on a real animal battle at the Kruger Park in South Africa!
Aug
26
Least Religious Countries
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1. Sweden (up to 85% non-believer, atheist, agnostic)
2. Vietnam
3. Denmark
4. Norway
5. Japan
6. Czech Republic
7. Finland
8. France
9. South Korea
10. Estonia (up to 49% non-believer, atheist, agnostic)
> Time Magazine article (via Gadling)
Aug
25
These are my links for August 7th through August 24th:
- 100 Tips to Improve Your Life -
- 10 Surprising Uses For Aspirin -
- Disk Inventory X - Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X. It shows the sizes of files and folders in a graphical way called “treemaps”. If you’ve ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.
- Retro MacOS Wordpress Theme -
- www.rhinos-mac.fr - Ce site a été réalisé afin d?aider les nouveaux venus sur mac. Grâce à des tutoriaux, vous découvrirez les bases de Mac OS X, des liens web et vers des applis très sympas, ainsi que les raccourcis clavier les plus fréquemment utilisés.
- United Nations Statistics Division - Links to UN members statistic divisions
- OFST - Education, science - Swiss statistic office, education section
Aug
24
Predynastic
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Stéphane, I’m more and more amazed by your pictures. I love that one. Congrats!
Aug
5
These are my links for July 23rd through August 4th:
- Secular Web: Atheism, Agnosticism, Naturalism, Skepticism and Secularism - The Secular Web is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to defending and promoting a naturalistic worldview on the Internet.
- An Introduction to Atheism - This article attempts to provide a general introduction to atheism. The author rightly encourages to read widely and draw your own conclusions.
- TimeFlyer by “A Single Pixel” - Easy event entry with varied timeline styles. TimeFlyer automatically creates an appropriate timescale and lays out your timeline.
- The run for the Fake Steve Jobs, rumors and collectibles - While lots are running after the Fake Steve Jobs, this little story reminds us that the late Mac The Knife column and website was perhaps the ancestor of the blog everyone is talking about today
- DVC Learning Style Survey for College - Figure out what is your best way of learning (listening, watching, …) through this survey. Your answer will come with some tips to improve your learning process