clock | September 29, 2009Ogden's Law: The sooner you get behind, the more time you will have to catch up.
- Alan R. Ogden
clock | September 29, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: PLoS article-level metrics: substantial value add for authors
Is 'Good Enough' Good Enough for You?
Almost time for PLoS ONE Blog Pick Of The Month: Hurry up!
This is actually kind of serious: 'Real Lives and White Lies in the Funding of Scientific Research'
How to provide safe, quality hospital care by increasing transparency
Adventures in Academia: On open access, Stanford's leadership falters
Mark Patterson's (PLoS) talk 'Re-Engineering the Scientific Journal' from the…
clock | September 29, 2009There are 32 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs:
Tyrannosaurus rex and other tyrannosaurid fossils often display multiple, smooth-edged full-thickness erosive lesions on the mandible, either…
clock | September 28, 2009Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- Alan Alexander Milne
clock | September 28, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Gordon Conference - Pineal Cell Biology: Mechanisms Of Circadian Rhythmicity And Melatonin Action
Nixon's prepared speech if Apollo 11 astronauts got stranded on the moon
Free-market idolatry: Government not the only power to resist - "we need to rethink the common belief that says government is always the problem"
500+ science types on Twitter
David Bradley's brilliant flow chart 'To Follow or Not To Follow' on Twitter
Why metaphors:Thinking literally
Understanding the Psychology of Twitter and More on the…
clock | September 28, 2009There are 30 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the week - you go and look for your own favourites:
Performance of Humans vs. Exploration Algorithms on the Tower of London Test:
The Tower of London Test (TOL) used to assess executive functions was inspired in Artificial Intelligence tasks used to test…
clock | September 28, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 380 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
10 days of science: Astronomical art: Representing Planet Earth
2020 Science: Hooked on science - ten things that inspired me to become a scientist
A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a…
clock | September 28, 2009This is awesome - Botanicalls. See one of the developer's amazing Ignite talk:
clock | September 27, 2009What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
- Alain (1818-1951)
clock | September 27, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
Washington Post needs social media conversation, not restrictions and WaPo's Social Media Guidelines Paint Staff Into Virtual Corner; Full Text of Guidelines.
Ukraine's Got Talent winner brings nation to tears (see video here).
On the inaugural Long Table - A splendid start
Feedback needed for Drupal workshop at #scio10
Charles Darwin Lecture Sept 29th at 6:30 Dale Russell: "Islands in the Cosmos: The Evolution of Life on Land" NC Museum of Natural Sciences
New lecture series by Harvard's Michael Sandel:Justice:…
clock | September 27, 2009
Background
When Futurity.org, a new science news service, was launched last week, there was quite a lot of reaction online.
Some greeted it with approval, others with a "wait and see" attitude.
Some disliked the elitism, as the site is limited only to the self-proclaimed "top" universities (although it is possible that research in such places, where people are likely to be well funded, may be the least creative).
But one person - notably, a journalist - exclaimed on Twitter: "propaganda!", which led to a discussion that revealed the journalist's notion that press releases are…
clock | September 27, 2009Anton and I will be on the radio, WXDU Durham Duke University Radio, tonight at 7pm. We will be interviewed by Christopher Perrien about ScienceOnline2010, science blogging, etc. This is a part of the Science In The Triangle series and the podcast will be available on iTunes early next week.
clock | September 26, 2009Follow me on Twitter to get these, and more, in something closer to Real Time:
How would Einstein use e-mail?
College students are not as intelligent and Smarter people go to college, so average university students less intelligent?
How blogging has augmented my career
More crappy flu journalism, this time Alternet [rant alert!]
@TrixieTracker @chillnc I remember as a blog is now a very useful phone App
The Secrets of Time Square's Ridiculous Billboards
Friday Weird Science: The Hyena Mating Game
RT @thegarbagegirl: We've reached the garbage patch! [20 minutes ago from web] //the amazing…
clock | September 26, 2009There are only a couple of days left. Some competitors have already asked their supporters to switch their vote from them to Grrrl. Right now, she is the only real science blogger with a chance to actually win this. So, if you have not voted yet, or voted for someone else, go vote now. Just click here right now, register (simple and quick) and vote.
clock | September 26, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 370 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and other people's posts (remember that we are looking for original poems, art, cartoons and comics, as well as essays):
10 days of science: Astronomical art: Representing Planet Earth
2020 Science: Hooked on science - ten things that inspired me to become a scientist
A Blog Around The Clock: On Being a…
clock | September 25, 2009It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work and amusements than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other good things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.
- Agnes Repplier