[Comment on] Marketing Earth science education

Comment on 'Big science, little science'.

upfront cor respondence conference in New York on the demographic problem of the Jews excluded Jews. Israeli universities and research institutions are thus not independent of the Israeli State and its political agendas and acts. Rather, they, and many of the academics within them, are active creators and endors-ers. As I emphasised in my Opinion column, a boycott is a tactic, not an end in its...

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Reflecting on Experiential Learning in Marketing Education

Experiential learning methods have become increasingly popular in marketing education. Factors underlying this trend are: the desire to respond to the changing higher education environment (the student-customer); to endow students with employability skills; the common sense assumption that since marketing is a practical activity learning from experience makes sense; and, pedagogic methods desig...

Computational earth system science

Of the many fields of science in which increased numerical simulations and information technology have accelerated recent developments, perhaps none holds more promise than computational earth system science, a field of research within the new science of GeoComplexity. In the past, researchers observed physical and chemical processes to clarify the physics of such natural systems as earthquake ...

Comment on ‘ Significance tests in climate science ’

Throughout most or all of the empirical sciences, significance testing is one of the most widely used statistical procedures. Unfortunately, it is also widely abused. In recent years, an increasing number of authors have expressed concern over such abuse; see, e.g., the book by Ziliak and McCloskey (2008) who focus mainly on economics, and Kruschke (2010) who focuses on cognitive sciences. In a...