- Mining the Astronomical Literature - yes, just ADS not the Asteroids, yet.
Shamelessly cribbed from a thread on the fb Astronomers group - In defence of string theory - rather good post by Matt Strassler
- Claim that founding node of networks can be efficiently localized by sparse sampling
- Don't Confuse Technology With College Teaching - from the Chronicle
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