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Archives for February 8, 2008
The Island Project
Posted by Coturnix on February 8, 2008 I mentioned before that Carrboro Citizen is my favourite newspaper, the only one I read in hardcopy. Perhaps I like it because it is hyperlocal. Perhaps that is why I have this mindset that those who live in Carrboro already read it and those who don’t will have no interest. So, I rarely blog about…
Neglected Research Findings in Family Planning and Reproductive Health
Posted by Coturnix on February 8, 2008 Many important research findings never make it into the actual practice when it comes to reproductive health services. Rose of The INFO Project Blog has posted an interesting and good survey which needs to be spread around the blogosphere more in order to get a bigger number of responses: To improve service delivery and policies,…
From the trenches of Open Access: Interview with Hemai Parthasarathy
Posted by Coturnix on February 8, 2008 Hemai Parthasarathy spent about five years as an editor at Nature before joining PLoS where she was the Managing Editor of PLoS Biology from its very beginning, through about five years of it until just a few months ago. When I got the job with PLoS and spent my first month in San Francisco, Hemai…
Open Notebook Science – session transcript
Posted by Coturnix on February 8, 2008 On top of screencasts, podcasts and PPT files that are already available, you can now also read the full transcript of the session on Public Scientific Data from the Science Blogging Conference. And much more here….
Darwin Quotes
Posted by Coturnix on February 8, 2008 The plough is one of the most ancient and most valuable of mans inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earth-worms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history…