Links to videos and articles on robotics, general science, education, and mathematics
Articles on robotics, mathematics, and improving science:
Some articles/videos on or related to robotics
[8/29/15] Article in neuroscience how we balance and step
Articles on improving science
[11/30/15] How computers broke science and what we can do to fix it: reproducibility in the age of computing
[10/25/15] AMA with John Ioannidis, author of “Why most published research findings are false and a primary mover in the reproducible research movement.
[8/27/15] Results from the Open Science Collaboration’s attempt to replicate 100 top cited studies in Psychology. Spoiler: only about a third could be replicated. This is the beauty of science, though: that scientists set out to do this will hopefully make future such research more rigorous.
[8/19/15] Great interactive web page that allows you to hack your way to scientific glory
[8/18/15] Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers
[8/11/15] Slate article on making peer review a public process
[6/2/15] A great illustration of confirmation bias
Articles on mathematics
[9/10/15] Neat article on intersection of topological mathematics and mechanics
[8/11/15] Recent mathematical discovery of a new tilable pentagon
[7/7/15] Puzzle on extracting information from randomness
Articles on education
[9/19/15] College football has almost nothing to do with college
[9/14/15] College scorecard This is a wew government site that allows you to compare universities using different metrics.
[8/23/15] The MOOC revolution that wasn’t.Or: improving on current best practices in education is hard.