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John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. You can reach him at jdupuis at yorku dot ca
October 30, 2009
Category: friday fun
Actually, it's not really about misconceptions that we learn only in school, it's more about urban legend/zeitgeist stuff that eveyone knows. Anyways, The 10 Biggest Misconceptions We Learn In School is from Manolith, a site I've never heard of before....
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October 27, 2009
Category: computer science
The September Communications of the ACM has a provocative article by Peter J. Denning and Paul S. Rosenbloom, Computing: the fourth great domain of science (OA version). It's well written and persuasive, certainly worth reading the whole thing. Science has...
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October 25, 2009
Category: SO'10
Registration for Science Online 2010 is open. The conference web site is here and program info is here. Time is running out. There are currently about 175 registered and the organizers are going to cap it at 250. I've attended...
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October 23, 2009
Category: book review
TVOntario has produced a very fine documentary based on the life of geometer Donald Coxeter, who lived in Toronto and worked at the University of Toronto for many years. It's called The Man Who Saved Geometry and is based on...
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Category: friday fun
Ah, but maybe he would if they were Cthulhu plushies! Check this out from Sci Fi Wire: 14 great Cthulhu toys that make devouring souls fun! H.P. Lovecraft's elder god Cthulhu is supposed to be terrifying, hideous and awe-inspiring--but whoever...
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October 20, 2009
Category: acad lib future
A few weeks ago Bill Gasarch published his Journal Manifesto 2.0 on the Computational Complexity blog. Basically, his idea was to start a scholarly publishing revolution from the inside: Keep in mind: I am NOT talking to the NSF or...
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October 19, 2009
Category: acad lib future
As I mentioned in my previous post, I did a little Q&A about the new outsourcing arrangement that CISTI has negotiated with Infotrieve. Q1. What's the effect on jobs at CISTI from this move? As you may know, NRC-CISTI is...
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Category: culture of science
Such is the subject line of an email I got from the NRC-CISTI people last week. NRC-CISTI is Canada's National Research Council -- Canada Institute of Scientific and Technical Informamtion. In other words, Canada's national science library. Many of you...
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October 16, 2009
Category: friday fun
And I'm not talking about students the morning after a pub night! It seems that the University of Florida has actually added zombie invasions to their campus emergency plans. You should watch, for example, for "increasing numbers of gruesome unexplained...
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October 15, 2009
Category: acad lib future
As has been buzzing around the scitech library mailing lists lately (thanks, Joe!), the great news is that the STELLA! Science, Technology & Engineering Library Leaders in Action unconference is coming up in Denver in January 2010. What is the...
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