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Category: Science Reporting
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Category: Science Reporting
This one is loooong. Sorry....
Posted by Coturnix at 3:58 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogging
I know everyone in the sci-blogosphere is swooning over Carl Sagan. But as a kid I never cared much about him - I usually fell asleep halfway through each episode of 'Cosmos'. But I would not miss for anything an...
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Category: Blogging
The New Scientist, The Open Laboratory, the journos who just don't get it....those things make me want to write something on this blog! Slow blogging...like slow food. These days, if something cannot wait, I put it on Twitter - from...
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Category: Media
I am feeling mean today. So, here is my first mean post of the day. About a week ago I read this delicious post about the business of scientific publishing. It is a good read throughout - the title of...
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Category: Blogging
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Category: Media
I am proud to live in Chapel Hill, the home of UNC and it's campus newspaper The Daily Tar Heel. As soon as they got elected to their new editorial and managerial positions a couple of months ago, Sara Gregory,...
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Category: Academia
A run-down of good recent stuff, highly recommended for your weekend reading and bookmarking: PLoS One: Interview with Peter Binfield: ...In my view PLoS ONE is the most dynamic, innovative and exciting journal in the world, and I am...
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Category: Media
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Category: Technology
SciBling Walt Crawford indulges himself in some prognosticating about the (non)demise of various physical means of delivering information: music, films, magazine, newspapers and books. He takes a cautious, conservative tack there, for the most part. I am supposed to be...
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Category: Media
Or better not. Is this the way Washington Post is trying to hasten its complete loss of respect and relevance? In the week they fired their only journalist worthy of that title? Yuck! [via @jayrosen_nyu]...
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