Journals

[Crossless2.0]

Alex K: (though currently, I'm mainly working in diaper fluid dynamics.)

I have four advanced degrees in that field. You may find the journal I started, Fuck, Again? Where Does It All Come From?, to be useful in your studies.

[LostLocke]

Yes, I'm a theoretical physicist by training, with the Higgs boson....

Wow, wait, are you this guy?

[Alex K]

My mom is much nicer and gives hugs, and I regrettably don't play the Cello... and my wife knows physics :-)
Also, isn't LH an experimental physicist? SC is the theorist iirc.

[Minimalist]

Here is an actual archaeological journal article, written by Israel Finkelstein and published in the Palestine Exploration Quarterly.

https://www.academia.edu/1070655/Archaeo...d_Nehemiah

The list of returnees (Ezra 2, 1–67; Nehemiah 7, 6–68) forms one of the cornerstones for the study of the  province of Yehud in the Persian period. Because of the lack of ancient Near Eastern sources on Yehud,discussion has focused primarily on the biblical texts and has thus, in certain cases, become trapped incircular reasoning. The only source of information that can break this deadlock is archaeology. The finds at the places mentioned in the list of returnees seems to show that it does not represent Persian-period realities.Important Persian-period places not mentioned in the list support this notion. The archaeology of the list seems to indicate that it was compiled in the late Hellenistic (Hasmonaean) period and represents the reality of that time.

Not terribly long but note the extent of citations of the works of sources and refutations of opposing claims.  This is scholarship....not apologetics.

[brewer]

Does anyone read scientific journals? I wanted to start reading some, I know that sounds nerdy, but it seems useful to know what is going on in the scientific realm.



Thanks!

What are you looking for? Mine are all medical/pharmacological.

[Shuffle]

Does anyone read scientific journals? I wanted to start reading some, I know that sounds nerdy, but it seems useful to know what is going on in the scientific realm.



Thanks!

What are you looking for? Mine are all medical/pharmacological.

Biology interests me alot.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Most scientific journals are beyond me. I tend to read the synopses and, if I find them interesting enough, I look for articles about the topic, preferably in words of less than three syllables and with lots of brightly coloured pictures.

This is the primary difference, I think, between someone who is in science (such as Alex) and someone who is into science (yours truly). I think science is mad cool, but I have neither the training nor the skills to follow most peer reviewed publications.

Boru

[ignoramus]

Nice one Boru.

And "intelligence" is the thing which let's you differentiate the two.

[brewer]

Biology interests me alot.

I hit this one sometimes in my searches. Free Access.

http://thescipub.com/journals/ojbs/

Example:

http://thescipub.com/PDF/ofsp.10078.pdf

[Alex K]

Most scientific journals are beyond me.  I tend to read the synopses and, if I find them interesting enough, I look for articles about the topic, preferably in words of less than three syllables and with lots of brightly coloured pictures.

This is the primary difference, I think, between someone who is in science (such as Alex) and someone who is into science (yours truly).  I think science is mad cool, but I have neither the training nor the skills to follow most peer reviewed publications.

Boru

Which is, of course, also my situation for any topic outside my precise sub-specialty of physics. Biology for example is something I adore. The range of topics in which I understand (most) peer reviewed articles about current research, or can actually peer review them, is small compared to physics as a whole, let alone "science"