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PLoS In Nature : The Big Picture

OA pillars The following are excerpts from the journal Nature regarding the Public Library of Science. These were located with a simple search for the phrase "Public Library of Science." For each item, I provide the source, and a selected bit of text. I...

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Posted on July 6, 2008 7:29 PM • 0 Comments •

Prozac and Placebos

Late last month, I put up a quick post, New-generation antidepressants do not produce clinically significant improvements in depression, that addressed a PLoS published metastudy of interest. I was careful to use the phrasing from the paper as the title of my post, and to...

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Posted on March 6, 2008 6:01 PM • 0 Comments •

Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival 33

Welcome to the Four Stone Hearth Blog Carnival #33, 'specializing' in the four fields of anthropology. The previous edition of 4SH can be found at Testimony of the Spade, and the next edition will be hosted by Our Cultural World. The main page for...

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Posted on January 30, 2008 9:44 AM • 0 Comments •

The knature of knowldge

I wanted to point out two interesting posts both having to to with the nature of knowledge, or as we call it here in Minnesota (where the "k" in "Knute" is proudly pronounced)....

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Posted on December 18, 2007 7:04 PM • 0 Comments •

Million Book Project Flawed?

We are told that "the Million Book Project has exceeded its goal of digitizing one million books by 2007. " Well, I can think of a million books that I'd never want to look at, and I can think of a million books that I...

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Posted on November 27, 2007 1:51 PM • 2 Comments •