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Category: OpenAccess
I told you so, but most of you would not listen. Amazon has tossed an entire publishing company off its site (hat tip: H.G.) because that company would not comply with Amazon's universally imposed Kindle edition pricing strategy. That places Amazon at the decision making...
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:06 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Education
Last weekend I attended Science Online 2010, which is a conference of science communicators with a heavy mix of bloggers, many journalists and others from the print industry, an increasingly large number of book authors, and OpenX (X=access, notebook, science, or whatever) advocates and practitioners....
Posted by Greg Laden at 5:18 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Plants
One of the world's oldest plants turns out to be a 13,000 year-old scrub oak (Quercus palmeri, or Palmer's Oak) in Southern California. Apparently this tree has survived for so long, despite the fact that it was born in the ice age and there have...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:40 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenAccess
Raptors and their Talons are the subjects of a blog post on the DC Birding Blog called "How Raptor Talons Fit Their Prey" This post, which is quite excellent and that I highly recommend, on the November Plos Blog Post of the Month Award. We...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:01 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Atheism
I would very much like your help in picking out a tee-shirt to wear around town. Let me tell you about the town, and you'll be able to make an appropriate suggestion....
Posted by Greg Laden at 11:00 AM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenAccess
And it's on You Tube!...
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Category: OpenAccess
Hat Tip: Who Else!?!!???...
Posted by Greg Laden at 4:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health
Ghostwriting, in the scientific medical literature, is the production of marketing literature which is then disguised as scientific literature. Part of this disguise is the appending of "authors" who are actual scientists who would normally write their own papers. Newly unveiled court documents show that...
Posted by Greg Laden at 9:56 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenAccess
The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite...
Posted by Greg Laden at 3:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: OpenAccess
Shhhh.... secret document leaks from top secret PLoS ONE files ....
Posted by Greg Laden at 10:31 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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