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I've mentioned before that there is a web page set up by Abel Pharmboy at Terra Sigillata to raise some money for Bora Zivkovic, recently of Scienceblogs.com but now detached from that network. Bora is the community organizer for PLoS, and is a scientist interested...
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Saving the Saba Bank with Open Access Publishing
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The Saba Bank is a major coral reef in the Caribbean which sports a high level of biodiversity but also attracts oil tankers, and is thus an important natural area under threat. The tankers anchor here to avoid paying fees in various ports, but the...
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Amazon Dot Com IS a different kind of thing.
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...
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#scio10 Science Online 2010 recollections and reflections on the sessions I attended
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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....
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Out of place oak is 13 thousand years old
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...
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Raptors and their Talons
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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...
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I need your help picking out a tee-shirt.
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....
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PLoS rolls out article level metrics
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The OpenAccess Mashup
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Hat Tip: Who Else!?!!???...
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