Posts

Shapiro's "New Study Links Widening Income Gap With Life Expectancy"

Stein's "Is It Safe For Medical Residents To Work 30-Hour Shifts?"

Neighmond's "Why is mammogram advice still such a tangle? Ask your doctor."

Barry-Jester's "What A Bar Graph Can Tell Us About The Legionnaires’ Outbreak In New York" + CDC learning module

ANOVA example using Patty Neighmond's "To ease pain, reach for your play list."

Ben Blatt's "Bad Latitude" and "You Live in Alabama. Here’s How You’re Going to Die"

TED talks about statistics and research methods

Paul Basken's "When the Media Get Science Research Wrong, University PR May Be the Culprit"

Christie Aschwanden's "The Case Against Early Cancer Detection"

Izadi's "Tweets can better predict heart disease rates than income, smoking and diabetes, study finds"

Weber and Silverman's "Memo to Staff: Time to Lose a Few Pounds"

Chris Taylor's "No, there's nothing wrong with your Fitbit"

Amanda Aronczyk's "Cancer Patients And Doctors Struggle To Predict Survival"

Emily Oster's "Don't take your vitamins"

Diane Fine Maron's "Tweets identify food poisoning outbreaks"

Nell Greenfieldboyce's "Big Data peeks at your medical records to find drug problems"

Patti Neighmond's "What is making us fat: Is it too much food or moving to little?"

io9's "The Controversial Doctor Who Pioneered the Idea Of "Informed Consent""

The United Nation's "2013 World Happiness Report"

Lesson Plan: SIDS and plagioencephaly