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Venomous mammal caught on camera

Rare footage of one of the world's most strange and elusive mammals is captured by scientists.

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Feilden's blog

Ground-breaking new technique in stem cell science

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Baby Jupiter's huge weight gain

The planet Jupiter must have gained mass fast during its infancy, according to astronomers.

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Eat it or lose it - why centuries of crop diversity are at risk

Centuries of crop diversity are at risk of being lost forever as farmers turn to just a few modern, high yielding varieties.

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Animal matters

Scotland's debate over tests on primates

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Tech fair offers greener vision

Analysts at the Consumer Electronics Show say green credentials of tech products will become critical to success.

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A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has mirrors for eyes

A deep-sea fish caught in the Pacific has eyes which use mirrors as well as lenses, scientists discover.

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Black holes 'preceded galaxies'

Astronomers believe they have solved a cosmic chicken-and-egg question: what came first - black holes or galaxies?

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Holes give edge to new armour

Scientists from the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have devised ultra-hard vehicle armour to protect military personnel.

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Beagle hunter

On a mission to find the most famous ship of science

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Heat may spark world food crisis

Half the world's population could face food crisis by 2100 as soaring temperatures cripple staple crops, scientists warn.

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Earth Watch

Why it is hard to predict sudden environmental crises

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'Wolfman' returns

Explorer Jim McNeill tracks down Arctic wolves

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Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants'

A Zimbabwean wildlife campaigner tells the BBC that soldiers are being given elephant meat to eat, as the economic crisis deepens.

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Everest trip helps critically ill

Blood oxygen levels recorded on a trip by medics to Everest could help the treatment of critically ill patients.

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Mummy of female pharaoh uncovered

Egyptologists find remains of a mummy thought to belong to a queen who ruled 4,300 years ago, Egypt's antiquities chief announced.

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First flight of algae-fuelled jet

Continental Airlines is the latest to test fly a jet biofuel, this time with a product derived partially from algae.

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Poetry or science?

Is romantic love just a chemical cocktail?

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China alert over bird flu death

Chinese authorities shut down and clean poultry markets in Hebei province, after the first human death in nearly a year.

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Mosquitoes make sweet love music

Sexy songs sung by mosquitoes in courtship could be key to curbing the spread of dengue fever, say scientists.

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Canadians claim South Pole record

A trio of Canadians claim a new record for the fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole.

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Panda bites his third tourist in two years at Beijing zoo

A panda at Beijing zoo bites a man for the third time in two years.

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US vows 'huge' marine protection

The US is to establish "the largest area of protected sea in the world", banning fishing and mining, around its Pacific islands.

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Body repair 'could be ramped up'

A combination of drugs could trick the body into sending its repair mechanisms into overdrive, say scientists.

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Methodology:

The Bell Curve: Anatomy of an Analysis

The interpretations proffered in Herrnstein and Murray's book, "The Bell Curve", are not supported by reanalysis of their data.

http://www.claudiax.net/bell.html

Graand

Free Classified Ads Portal

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BGSP Research Resources

A collection of resources to aid research in psychoanalysis and allied disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

http://soldzresearch.com/BGSPResearchSources.htm

Chestnuts

A critique of scientific and media reporting of sex and gender issues.

http://www.gender.org.uk/chstnuts/index.htm

Developmental Research

A problem oriented and interdisciplinary research methodology.

http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/8788/DR.html

Edinburgh University Data Library

Assists academics and students in the Social Sciences in the use of numeric or encoded research data for analysis and teaching.

http://datalib.ed.ac.uk/

Enquire Within and the Repertory Grid Interview

Construct systems may be conceived of as multi-dimensional mathematical models in which the person's own language is used to classify his or her experience - a presentation of Kelly's personal construct theory

http://www.enquirewithin.co.nz/theoryof.htm

General Semantics

A critical analysis of the theoretical foundations of Korzybski's general semantics featuring many papers, commentary, and discussions.

http://www.xenodochy.org/gs/

ISWROLDnet: Research and Scholarship

intended to provide professors and students of information systems with a useful starting point for accessing WWW-based material related to research and scholarship in the field of information systems.

http://www.isworld.org/#research

Latent Semantic Analysis

A mathematical/statistical technique for extracting and representing the similarity of meaning of words and passages by analysis of large bodies of text.

http://lsa.colorado.edu/

Max Weber's Approach to Objectivity in Social Science

This essay, by Steve Hoenisch, seeks to shed light on Weber's view of the applicability of objectivity by attempting to answer the overarching question that sits at the foundation of his approach: Was Weber an advocate of value-free social science?

http://www.criticism.com/md/weber1.html

Measuring Paradoxical Reality

an alternative way to asses subject condition in social sciences.

http://www.burcet.net/jbl/lleixa/polymeters.htm

META Magazine Research

Research about methods and techniques on problem solving, acquiring knowledge, classification of information, education, and positive creative management skills.

http://www.metamagazine.com/

Methodology

Discusses the logic of relating qualitative and quantitative methods, different approaches for inter-relating them, and innovative applications of methodological inter-relation.

http://qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/inhalt1-01-e.htm

Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research

Links to free resources for methods in social science research.

http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/

RM Institute - Research Methods Knowledge

The knowledge base of social science research methods. It focus on measurements and modeling issues.

http://www.researchmethods.org/

Semac -- Semantic analysis software

The concept of semantic activity that is claimed to proceed as well from single words as from word co-occurrences. This equalization rests upon graph theory.

http://www.semac.be/

Social Science Research Resources

by Craig McKie.

http://www.socsciresearch.com/

Theory:The Necessary Evil

Originally published in Theory and Concepts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives from the Field.

http://natehaas.com/pub/TheoryThe%20Necessary%20Evil.htm

Understanding Experimentation

A Web Quest on the classic experiment, as well as other research methods: naturalistic observation, questionnaire survey, and correlational research. Designed by Bernard Schuster.

http://psychexperiment.tripod.com/

Vytvorology

Vytvorology, which is an exact science of human processes, offers new, acute and reliable research possibilities in this field of human and social processes.

http://ojczyzna.pl/BR/BROZYNA-What-Is-Vytvorology.htm

The Web Center for Social Research Methods

Resources for applied social research and evaluation including a complete online research methods text, course resources, and researcher tools.

http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/