Open Science and Its Enemies, Part III: The progressives
OPEN SCIENCE & ITS ENEMIES, PART III: The Progressives in this episode i conclude my critique of - some parts of - the open science movement...
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Open Science and its Enemies. Part II: The populists
in this episode i continue discussing some problems in the open science movement. i focus on populist podcasters and the promotion of simpli...
Open Science and its Enemies. Part I: The p-circlers
There's no brain news this month, but i take this unique opportunity to provide the first of my three part critique of - some parts of - the...
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in this episode we find out how motivational talk makes you run faster & i ponder on the history of science & the death of ideas long, long...
YOUR SAMPLE IS SMALL
my name's nick holmes and THIS is the error bar: a podcast about brain science & statistics that's nothing like any other podcast about brai...
DON'T LOOK BACK
my name's nick holmes and THIS is the error bar, where no drinks are served, which has only one song on the jukebox & one programme on the t...
SEASON THREE PREVIEW
my name's nick holmes and THIS is the error bar, a podcast by a middle age man who likes statistics, FOR middle aged men who like statistics...
BIAS, FATIGUE, FRAUD? TAKE A HIKE
how learning to play the piano improves perception, why the brain needs a break, image manipulation & the wonder of winter walking. keywords...
EYES WIDE SHUT
how different people see the world of colour differently, the study of love that triggered a studied hate & the annual review of the error b...
EMOTIONAL FISH FOOD
how the largest part of the brain gets emotional, why older adults don't get emotion, how goldfish can swim 70cm for food & FREE ENERGY fore...
THE SHAVING FOAM FIRE HOSE OF BRAIN NEWS
how the mouse eye tells the mouse brain that a mouse is scratching itself, how dogs are everywhere & the two scientific cultures of simplifi...
CLIMBING MOUNT THETA
how to massively improve your memory in old age after just a few hours, why scientists won't change their mind, & how the brain is not made...
HOLDING PATTERN
bringing you the brain science news before it happens. or sometimes a long, long time afterwards. & sometimes it's not really news at all. m...
BIG, WRONG AND BORING
the biggest brain scanning study ever, how the error bar was wrong, how magnetically stimulating the head is distracting & some vaguely-inte...
IS IT BIG ENOUGH?
how the visual brain controls blind people's feet, & how every single brain scanning study ever done needed thousands more participants to b...
FINDING THE CLITORIS
how to find the clitoris, how COVID shrinks some very important parts of the brain & the Canadian brain disease that isn't. still. keywords:...
FLATTENING THE CURVE
how your brain is just as good at age 60 as age 30, the neural correlates of near death experience & the most interesting questions in the w...
THE FACETIME ILLUSION
how your brain lives in the past, the virus causing multiple sclerosis, consciousness explained three times, the scanner that talks scots &...
2021: A YEAR IN ERROR
how rocket scientists & brain surgeons are just as clever as you, how to publish anything in medical journals, how music affects the brain &...
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how smelling bodily odour stops men from killing & makes women warriors, how alcoholic binges shrink your brain & the wind farms that make y...