Making the media rounds is a story about physics "research" on time travel that involves twitter. I can't/don't want to/whatever explain, so see this story for one view: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/researchers-time-travelers-twitter-turn-empty-handed-article-1.1568677 and http://www.nbcnews.com/science/internet-search-time-travelers-turns-nothing-time-2D11840962
For those interested in reading the preprint, see: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.7128 Strangely enough, the authors have had a difficult time getting their paper published. Initial examination of the paper suggests that it is probably the lack of statistically significant results that causes the paper from being published -- we all are aware of the prejudice against papers reporting null results. Perhaps they should have used confidence intervals instead. No truth to the rumor that Scott Lilienfeld and Sally Satel will write a book about this misuse of resources in the name of science. Still, this research does raise the question "Does Daryl Bem have a twitter account?" And if the answer if "Yes", the next question is why didn't he answer? Things that make you go hmmmm. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=32543 or send a blank email to leave-32543-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
