Joy

Via Arts & Letters Daily and NY Review of Books: It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused. A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of...

The Data Vigilante

Via Arts and Letters Daily and Atlantic: He is, on the contrary, seized by the conviction that science is beset by sloppy statistical maneuvering and, in some cases, outright fraud. He has therefore been moonlighting as a fraud-buster, developing techniques to help...

The Seven Deadly Sins: A Research Roundup

Via Pacific Standard: While the “seven deadly sins” may seem a misty morality lesson from the past, the cardinal vices are always with us–even in the strait-laced arena of academic research. The Seven Deadly Sins: A Research Roundup – Points: “Researchers at the...