Please help me convince my in-laws not to take colloidal silver (silver water). [more inside]
posted on May 7, 2008 - 11 answers

In data graphing and visualization, are there any existing standards for false-color or pseudo-color images?
posted on Jun 21, 2007 - 7 answers

What are the best online resources for scientific data? [more inside]
posted on Nov 30, 2006 - 13 answers

A statistics / scientific convention question. I've noticed in scientific journals that often when a set of data is presented with values normalized to one of the sample groups, and the value for that sample group is arbitrarily set to 1, 10, 100 or whatever, to simplify interpretation, the variability/error data for that one sample group is left out. Is there a good statistical reason for that or is it just some random convention with no good reason? [more inside]
posted on Jan 24, 2006 - 17 answers

I am looking for an index data structure and query algorithm to solve a specific problem. Each row in the table represents a range, with a start/end value; I want to look up all the rows that overlap a certain value.
posted on Oct 7, 2004 - 14 answers