SciMonkbling Evil Monkey has a post up at Neurotopia (Version 2.0) in which he rails against idiot reviewer comments found in the summary statements. These latter are the written critiques provided by the three (typically) reviewers assigned to a NIH...
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Posted on July 23, 2008 12:45 PM • 3 Comments •
Chris Mooney has a post up at The Intersection in which he lauds an LA audience for "getting" Sizzle, for laughing "at all the right moments", and rues the fact that many ScienceBloggers "either didn't like Sizzle or didn't appear...
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Posted on July 22, 2008 1:33 PM • 18 Comments •
The advocates for legalization of the recreational and clinical use of marijuana and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA or "Ecstasy" in street parlance) are quite fond of questioning the observations published by scientists on the detrimental effects which may result from recreational use....
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Posted on July 11, 2008 11:05 AM • 43 Comments •
Looking for a more meaty and even tempered discussion of the interaction of science with religion? Thomas Robey of Hope for Pandora and The Differential has launched a new group blog called Clashing Culture. Mike Haubrich of Tangled Up in...
Posted on June 3, 2008 2:20 AM • 7 Comments •
An editorial in Nature Neuroscience [h/t: writedit] describes an in-house study they undertook to compare citations to individual articles and reviews in Nature Neuroscience (February-December, 2005) with download statistics from our website. Downloads represented the total PDF page views for...
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Posted on May 28, 2008 9:11 PM • 6 Comments •
It is no secret (although a much ignored fact) that journals will have a certain "type" of article that they are looking for that has little to do with objective scientific quality. Certain topics are "hot" while others that are...
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Posted on April 28, 2008 8:48 PM • 8 Comments •
A mnemonic device can be described as: ...a memory aid. Mnemonics are often verbal, something such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something, particularly lists. Mnemonics rely not only on repetition...
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Posted on April 22, 2008 11:30 AM • 21 Comments •
Karen Ventii of the Science to Life blog recently announced that she will be the editor-in-chief of a newly hatched science magazine at her local University. A comment brought my attention to the Berkeley Science Review which first published...
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Posted on April 18, 2008 1:35 PM • 4 Comments •
