The Scientific Activist
Archives for September, 2008
ResearchBlogging.Org 2.0
Posted by Nick Anthis on September 2, 2008 If you’ve gone to ResearchBlogging.org lately, you may have noticed that it’s been given a face-lift. Actually, it’s more than just a face-lift, as cofounder and president Dave Munger points out, including these new features: Multiple language support (and 30 new German-language bloggers!) Topic-specific RSS feeds Post-by-post tagging with topics and subtopics “Recover password” feature…
Obama on Science and Technology
Posted by Nick Anthis on September 1, 2008 On Saturday, ScienceDebate 2008 and Scientists and Engineers for America (SEA) announced that Barack Obama answered a fourteen-part questionnaire that they put together along with several other scientifically oriented organizations. Major props to ScienceDebate, SEA, and these other organizations for making this happen and to Barack Obama for thoroughly answering these fourteen questions. I’d encourage…