research blogging
emjohnson | July 13, 2009Greenpeace banner deployed on Mt. Rushmore. Image: S.J. Carrera / Greenpeace
There have been few more passionate and prescient figures in the history of science than the Russian naturalist and political radical Peter Kropotkin. Upon the confirmation of his geological research that demonstrated an ancient ice sheet had once extended across the Russian landscape, this evolutionary theorist and gentle anarchist reported in 1894 that "we must accustom ourselves to the idea that climate, like everything else on the earth, is a changeable element." In his many books and articles he regularly…
palmd | March 12, 2009An interesting article was recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the journal of the American College of Physicians (my professional organization). It has been noted in previous studies that there are differences in outcomes between African Americans and whites who are diagnosed with a heart attack. What hasn't been clear is the reason for these differences.
There are known disparities in access to health care, and there is sometimes a stated distrust in the medical system by minorities (not just due to such atrocities as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study). Many of us who…
palmd | January 19, 2009I can't say enough about ScienceOnline09, and about how useful meetings like this can be. When you toss a bunch of smart people from various disciplines together, add a little ethanol, and shake vigorously, you get some interesting results.
I had the chance to chat a bit with Dave Munger (hi Dave, hi Greta---great to meet you guys!) who put together researchblogging.org, an aggregator of blog posts on peer-reviewed research. It's a great tool. Let's say you want to blog about a cool journal article. You can shoot over to researchblogging.org, generate a citation, and place a badge on…