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“Brain Imaging Research is Often Wrong. This Researcher Wants to Change That” - Mad In America
Mad In America
Julia Belluz at Vox interviews Russ Poldrack, the director of the Center for Reproducible Neuroscience, on recent efforts to “clean up the house of neuroscience and improve transparency and the reliability of research.” Poldrack illustrates the current ...
“Brain Imaging Research is Often Wrong. This Researcher Wants to Change That” - Mad In America
Mad In America
Mad In America
Julia Belluz at Vox interviews Russ Poldrack, the director of the Center for Reproducible Neuroscience, on recent efforts to “clean up the house of neuroscience and improve transparency and the reliability of research.” Poldrack illustrates the current ...
Visiting the Birth Place of Saul Msane - AllAfrica.com
AllAfrica.com
Earlier this year, The Journalist carried an article in our Pioneers section on 19th century icon Saul Msane. He was a newspaperman, politician, chess boffin, bass singer, one of the founders of the ANC and a brilliant Zulu writer. ... [I asked myself ...
Get Out calendar for Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015 - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
Chess Club, Bozeman Public Library, 626 E. Main St., 6 p.m., free. All equipment provided. For more information, call ... This in-depth book is mix of cultural history, environmental reporting and scientific research. Neiwert is an investigative ...
Exploiting the data mine - Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry
One organisation helping with the move towards open access databases is the Research Data Alliance (RDA). The RDA – set up with funding from ... Assessors may not like it, but the most useful 'unit of research' is arguably no longer the research paper ...
FunStockRetro.co.uk confirm 24th August as... - Gamasutra
Gamasutra
An expert at miniaturization, Sir Clive has brought to mass market more than 100 highly innovative consumer products through various companies such as Sinclair Radionics and Sinclair Research. Examples of his famous products include the world's first ...
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Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend - The Guardian (blog)
The Guardian (blog)
The Guardian (blog)
Shaping up to be one of those box-office fixtures that looks mouthwatering on paper, only to end up a spirit-crushing and tedious disappointment (or “really compelling tactical battle … like a chess match”, depending on your levels of pretentiousness ...
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Indian American Chess Whiz Akshat Chandra from NJ wins the US Junior Chess ... - The Indian Panorama
The Indian Panorama
The Indian Panorama
The nine-round tournament was held at the prestigious Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from July 6 to July 15. The tense race for first place remained undecided until the final round when International Master Akshat Chandra emerged ...
Indian American Chess Whiz Akshat Chandra from NJ wins the US Junior Chess ... - The Indian Panorama
The Indian Panorama
The Indian Panorama
The nine-round tournament was held at the prestigious Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis from July 6 to July 15. The tense race for first place remained undecided until the final round when International Master Akshat Chandra emerged ...
Why the GI Dynamics Inc share price is down 5% today - Motley Fool Australia
Motley Fool Australia
The discontinuation of the trial was the major reason behind GI Dynamics' improved net loss result due to the decrease in operating expenses, including research and development (R&D) – a cost that is typically essential for the long-term success of ...
Spare Times for Children for Aug. 14-20 - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
This free event exercises mental muscle, as chess players gather for a day of competition and clinics. The fun will range from chess instruction for absolute beginners to United States Chess Federation Scholastic tournaments for students in grades 1 ...
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Spare Times for Children for Aug. 14-20 - New York Times
New York Times
New York Times
The fun will range from chess instruction for absolute beginners to United States Chess Federation Scholastic tournaments for students in grades 1 through 8. (Those in grade 9 and above can join an Action Tournament.) The day will also include a free ...
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Prince George's County community calendar, Aug. 13-19, 2015 - Washington Post
Washington Post
Chess club Eagle Chess Academy leads this class for all ages to learn or improve skills. 4 p.m. South Bowie ... 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Patuxent Research Refuge, North Tract, Route 198 between the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and Route 32, Laurel. 301-497-5887.
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THE PERILS OF PAULSON: Librarian strives to revive the past with old La Jolla ... - La Jolla Light
La Jolla Light
La Jolla Light
... curator of the silent movie collection at the library. Paulson has done a great deal of research on the LJCL films and teamed with Miriam Polcino to do the lab work necessary to preserve and enhance each film. ... These include “Virtue's Reward ...
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Video gamers the new frontier for local lawyer - The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
... industry in the world. According to technology research firm Gartner Inc., it is on track to generate $111 billion in revenue this year. ... “It's like a game of speed chess on steroids that's being played in real time,” Blum explained. “The ...
Reaching Back - New York Times
New York Times
“Why bother writing a book that someone else could write — just a historical novel that you research in libraries and on the Internet? . . . If I'm going to add a book to the endless mass of books out there, ... Liesl Schillinger has been a regular ...
Seasons by the Sea: With Love From Edna Lewis - East Hampton Star
East Hampton Star
East Hampton Star
After some research, I decided to trust Broadbent's of Kentucky to deliver authentic country ham and beaten biscuits. I ordered the watermelon rind pickles from Blue Ridge Jams of North Carolina, along with pickled beets and fire ... Many old recipes ...
Pestaño: Wesley So's busy schedule - Sun.Star
Sun.Star
3 at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. The super tournament will gather some of the strongest players in the world: reigning World champion Magnus Carlsen (2853), World No. 2 2 Viswanathan Anand (2816), World No. 3 Veselin Topalov ...
Defense Contractors Increase Lobbying Budgets As US-Led ISIS Strikes Kill ... - Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Center for Research on Globalization
Last week it was reported that defense contractors across the board are increasing their lobbying budgets to ensure their weapons continue to flow to the U.S. military. The news coincided with reports that many of the recent strikes against ISIS have ...
Successful Automation is Robots, Humans Working Together - Laboratory Equipment
Laboratory Equipment
Laboratory Equipment
NCATS is a highly automated national users facility that runs high-throughput screening of compounds for research organizations that don't have that level of automation or much of a compound library. Using NCATS, Yale University researchers recently ...