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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
March 31, 2010
Category: computer science
From the April Communications of the ACM, the Kode Vicious column is on The Data-Structure Canon. The reader question is: In most areas of science there are a few basic underlying laws that inform the rest of the study of...
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March 30, 2010
Category: bcto10
The second Book Camp TO is coming up in about 6 weeks or so: Saturday, May 15, 2010 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Last year's edition was terrific and I'm really looking forward to another great conference. What's it...
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March 29, 2010
Category: music
Another list of songs I really love, this time leaning a bit on the heavy side. I by Black Sabbath (performed by Heaven & Hell). This is one of my favourite Dio-era Sabbath songs, from the underrated Dehumanizer album (Dio/Sabb...
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March 26, 2010
Category: computer science
Wednesday was Ada Lovelace Day! Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. The first Ada Lovelace Day was held on 24th march 2009 and was a huge success....
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Category: friday fun
Interesting little slideshow article, one that makes you think about the transformation we've seen in the last century or so: The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations. Here's the list -- note that each page in the slideshow has an audio...
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March 24, 2010
Category: acad lib future
Nice article by Delaney J. Kirk and Timothy L. Johnson on Blogs As A Knowledge Management Tool In The Classroom (via). Based on their experiences in a combined 22 business courses over the past three years, the authors believe that...
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March 22, 2010
Category: best science books 2009
For the last little while I've been compiling lists from various media sources giving their choices for the best books of 2009. Some of the lists have been from general media sources, in which case I've just extracted the science-related...
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March 19, 2010
Category: My Job in 10 Years Book
John Scalzi's latest AMC column Why Hollywood Always, Always Gets the Future Wrong is, as usual, very smart and right on target. And pretty funny too. Everybody gets the future wrong. It's not just Hollywood or science fiction writers. When...
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March 18, 2010
Category: academia
I received an email a couple of weeks ago from Daniel Cromer of the Hrenya Research Group located in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His group was interested in expanding their...
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March 17, 2010
Category: academia
An interesting and provocative article in The Scientist by Steven Wiley iof the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, To Join or Not to Join. The thrust of the article is that scholarly societies are having trouble offering true value to their...
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