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What is the Fibonacci sequence?
A series of numbers in which each number (Fibonacci number) is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The simplest is the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.
How many journal quartiles are there?
There are four journal rank types: Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. Quartile (Q) is one of the main indicators in the world of academic research. It evaluates the quality of a scientific publication based on citation metrics.
Name the most famous cat in science history. What type of an experiment was that? Describe it.
Schrödinger's cat. It is a thought experiment proposed by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935.
Schrödinger's cat is a paradox that illustrates the strange nature of quantum superposition and the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Imagine for a moment that humanity will someday create a hyper-powered artificial intelligence that is capable of solving all of the world’s problems….
A thought experiment
Decode the acronyms: IYKYK, FOMO, JOMO
If You Know, You Know, Fear Of Missing Out; Joy Of Missing Out
What are the most common types of peer reviews?
The three most common types of peer review are single-anonymized, double-anonymized, and open peer review. Over time, new models have developed such as transparent, collaborative, and post publication peer review.
Who discovered the first vaccine? How did they do it?
The first vaccine was discovered by Edward Jenner, an English physician and scientist. In 1796, Jenner discovered that milkmaids who had previously contracted cowpox, a mild disease, seemed to be immune to smallpox, a deadly disease.
How phage and antibody works is that the antibody is like the search dog of a cop, it binds itself to infectious particles
Simile
Why is 73 Dr. Sheldon Cooper's favourite number?
73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th, and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying seven and three ... and in binary, 73 is a palindrome, 1001001, which backwards is 1001001
What are the most common sections of a typical scientific article?
Title, Authors, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Table, Discussion, Conclusion, Literature review, References, Appendices, Resource
What inspired Alexander Fleming to discover penicillin?
In 1928 Dr Alexander Fleming returned from a holiday to find mould growing on a Petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria. He noticed the mould seemed to be preventing the bacteria around it from growing. He soon identified that the mould produced a self-defence chemical that could kill bacteria.
Even though it's only the first day, I can tell this is going to be a boring course.
Hasty generalization fallacy is a claim made on the basis of insufficient evidence.
What is a predatory journal?
Predatory journals take advantage of the open-access publishing model by charging publication fees without providing standard peer-review or editing services.
What are some of the roles in a research team? (Name at least 4)
Principal Investigator (PI); Co-Investigators; Research Scientists; Research Assistants; Lab Technicians; Data Analysts/Statisticians; Research Administrators
Who was Rosalind Franklin?
Franklin is best known for her work on the X-ray diffraction images of DNA, which led to the discovery of the DNA double helix structure by James Watson and Francis Crick. However, her contributions were not fully recognized during her lifetime, and she did not receive the Nobel Prize for the discovery, which was awarded to Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins in 1962, four years after Franklin's death.
Green Peace's strategies aren't effective because they are all dirty, lazy hippies.
Fallacious ad hominem reasoning is categorized among informal fallacies, more precisely as a genetic fallacy, a subcategory of fallacies of irrelevance.
What is meant by a 'salami publication'?
Salami publication (also known as "salami slicing") is characterized by the spreading of study results over more papers than necessary.
How is the impact factor of a scientific journal calculated?
Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is calculated by Clarivate Analytics as an average of the sum of the citations received in a given year to a journal’s previous two years of publications (linked to the journal, but not necessarily to specific publications) divided by the sum of “citable” publications in the previous two years.
Who did the famous kite experiment in 1752? What did the kite experiment prove? Describe it briefly.
The famous kite experiment was conducted by Benjamin Franklin, an American scientist, inventor, and statesman, in 1752. The experiment aimed to prove that lightning is a form of electricity.
What is wrong with the following sentence?
When an experiment fails or doesn't work out the expected way, it tells a scientist there is something he didn't know.
The sentence is not inclusive because it uses the pronoun "he" to refer to a scientist, which assumes that all scientists are male. To make the sentence more inclusive and gender-neutral, the pronoun "they" can be used instead of "he".