{"id":35516,"date":"2011-05-22T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-may-20th-2011-gene-expression\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T15:42:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:57","slug":"friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-may-20th-2011-gene-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-may-20th-2011-gene-expression.php","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fluff \u2013 May 20th, 2011 | Gene Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6348 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07acd_FF3.png\" alt=\"FF3\" width=\"600\" height=\"100\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p><p>1) First, a <strong>post from the past<\/strong>: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2008\/02\/pentecostals-are-stupid-unitarians-are-smart\/\">Pentecostals are stupid? Unitarians are smart?<\/a>.<\/p><p>2) <strong>Weird search query of the week<\/strong>: &ldquo;aki kaurismaki&rdquo; <\/p><p>3) <strong>Comment of the week<\/strong>, in response to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/05\/fixing-science-in-part\/#comment-71353\">&ldquo;Fixing science, in part&rdquo;<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>In one of Ben Goldacre&rsquo;s books he cites a study about publication bias which shows that there&rsquo;s a publication bias in studies about publication bias. Given reasonable assumptions about distributions, people aren&rsquo;t publishing studies which would show only a small bias. I don&rsquo;t k now if this is hilarious or just demonstrates how severe a problem publication bias is.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>4) And finally, your weekly <strong>fluff fix<\/strong>:<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07acd_may-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07acd_may-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11863\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07acd_flight2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/07acd_flight2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11865\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f2b77_p4F2n4TS0wc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/f2b77_4OW-7qXdDyk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) First, a post from the past: Pentecostals are stupid? Unitarians are smart?.2) Weird search query of the week: &ldquo;aki kaurismaki&rdquo; 3) Comment of the week, in response to &ldquo;Fixing science, in part&rdquo;:In one of Ben Goldacre&rsquo;s books he cites &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/friday-fluff-%e2%80%93-may-20th-2011-gene-expression.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}