Biweekly links for 03/31/2008

• Adventures in Ethics and Science: Should researchers share data?
  • Andrew Vickers: “[T]he real issue here has more to do with status and career than with any loftier considerations. Scientists don’t want to be scooped by their own data, or have someone else challenge their conclusions with a new analysis.”
• Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer
• Stephen Laniel on blogs and the mass media
  • “The fight is between generalized media written by journalism-school graduates with limited understanding of specialized domains, and specialists who may or may not know how to write for a mass audience. The specialists are winning hands down…”
• Neil Turok: An African Einstein
  • Magnificent talk and vision.
• Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind
  • Awesome. “If you really want to know about the future, don’t ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist, don’t ask a code… ask a kindergarden teacher.”

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