Will Google censor its digital library?
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Updates on the Google Books Settlement. Is Google really evil after all? How are orphan books like hypotheses?
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- Art vs. Science Part 2: You want raw data? You can't handle raw data
- For the Last Time, the "Twitter Is Evil" Paper is not about Twitter!
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April 30, 2009
April 29, 2009
Wash your hands. . . with hands!
Category: Biology
Let etsy seller foliage help you fight swine flu with this bagful of handmade soaps in "skin-ish colors"! I vascillate between finding them cute, and thinking they resemble a crowd of damned souls reaching out for help from my soap...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:43 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hill-climbers vs. valley-crossers: is big science stifling innovation?
Category: Science
Mark Buchanan, quoting Lee Smolin, on how big science may be biased against innovative iconoclasts: Some scientists, he suggests, are what we might call "hill climbers". They tend to be highly skilled in technical terms and their work mostly takes...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Fossils in fine art
Category: Books
Check out Brian's new review of A History of Paleontology Illustration (Life of the Past) by Jane Davidson, in Palaeontologia Electronica: It is rare for fossils to be featured in fine art, but in the 15th century painting A...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 2:09 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2009
I Can Haz Writin Skillz?
Category: Blogosphere
How much more successful would Gravity's Rainbow have been if it were two paragraphs long and posted on a blog beneath a picture of scantily clad coeds? And why not add a Google search box? Want to become a high-profile...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 3:49 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Comprehensive list of science policy fellowships
Category: DC
Just as an FYI, Sheril at the Intersection has created this extremely helpful list of policy fellowships for scientists and engineers. It's definitely worth bookmarking if you have any interest in exploring science policy. The fellowships on this list range...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
First Annual Save the Frogs Day
Category: Biology
Unfortunately, species are the ultimate bioephemera. Amphibians in particular have been declining at an alarming rate over the past several decades; some estimates suggest that a third of amphibian species are on the verge of extinction.
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April 27, 2009
It's not obvious to me at all
Category: Frivolity
I'm off to visit the Supreme Court tomorrow, so I thought I'd share some law news for a change. In a landmark patent decision, Federal Circuit Judge Richard Posner has ruled that the sex toy shown above is "obvious." You...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 6:00 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Liquid sculpture
Category: Retrotechnology and steampunk
Simple, but surprisingly charming - and somewhat reminiscent of an ant colony or other biological collective: Fluid Sculpture (click for larger video) from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo....
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 4:13 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dumpster-diving for evidence against Big Food
Category: Books
An interesting perspective from today's WaPo: David Kessler, doctor, lawyer, and former FDA commissioner, argues that the food industry manipulates the neurological impacts of fats and sugars to program consumers to eat more than we need or want. "The food...
Posted by Jessica Palmer at 12:16 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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