The Triumph of Numbers – Cohen (2005)

September 8, 2009

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What I Learned

September 3, 2009

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Elective fertility cryo-preservation instigates debate in the Netherlands

July 27, 2009

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Curving Normality Quantitative Social Science Carnival

November 17, 2008

You’re not a blogger if you don’t participate in Blog Carnival, so it seems. Blog carnival are a great way of finding new blogs, interesting posts, and creative bloggers all within a single topic of interest. The host of the carnival gathers a collection of posts, writes an editorial, and obviously links to the posts.

A vast number of carnivals already exist. Fascinating ones and content are found on The Giant’s Shoulders, on classic science papers, Carnival of the Mathematics (although I understand nearly half of it), Four Stone Hearth, on anthropology in the widest (American) sense of that word, Cabinet of Curiosities, and The Skeptics Circle.
A longer list is found on Coturnix’s blog

Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to find a blogging carnival on sociology or social sciences in general. Therefor, I now introduce the Curving Normality Blogging Carnival on Quantitative Social Sciences.

Sociology Today: June 10, 2008

June 10, 2008

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