December 29, 2009
And today, to finish with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 11:30am - 12:35pm:
A. Medical journalism - Walter Jessen and Karl Leif Bates
Description: It could be argued that healthcare already has a "killer app" - search. According…
December 29, 2009
There are 19 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
December 28, 2009
In time of war the first casualty is truth.
- Boake Carter
December 28, 2009
Hard to believe that the animation this good is six years old!
December 28, 2009
The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January.
Today, I asked Cameron Neylon from the…
December 28, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Anne-Marie Hodge is a Biology graduate student at the University of…
December 27, 2009
I have made this a rather long letter because I haven't had time to make it shorter.
- Blaise Pascal
December 26, 2009
Redeem thy mis-spent time that's past:
Live this day, a if 'twere they last.
- Bishop Thomas Ken
December 26, 2009
This movie should be made, with Emma Watson starring:
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
December 25, 2009
Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, that spends his whole time in recreation is ever whetting, never mowing; his grass may grow and his steed starve. As, contrarily, he that always…
December 25, 2009
I always opened it this way. My Mom taught me this decades ago. What are you saying? We are descended from monkeys?!@#$%^&*! No way!
December 25, 2009
Interesting how the parent is steering the youngster towards the bag, trying to get it to use it as a prop!
December 24, 2009
Living and dying is not the big issue. The big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you are here.
- Bill T. Jones
December 24, 2009
Is Our Self Nothing but Reward? Neuronal Overlap and Distinction between Reward and Personal Relevance and Its Relation to Human Personality:
The attribution of personal relevance, i.e. relating internal and external stimuli to establish a sense of belonging, is a common phenomenon in daily life.…
December 23, 2009
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Calvin - Bill Watterson 'Calvin and Hobbes'
December 23, 2009
It is always interesting to dig through one's blog archives and see what happened when, or get reminded of a post one forgot was ever written ;-)
So, here are some of the key posts on A Blog Around The Clock from 2009, chosen from almost 2000 posts that appeared here this year (which is MUCH less…
December 23, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 10:15 - 11:20am:
A. Article-level metrics - Peter Binfield
Description: In an attempt to measure the article, as opposed to the journal it is published in, PLoS has recently…
December 23, 2009
There are 21 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
December 22, 2009
The task of government in this enlightened time does not extend to actually dealing with problems. Solving problems might put bureaucrats out of work. No, the task of government is to make it look as though problems have been solved, while continuing to keep the maximum number of consultants and…
December 22, 2009
If a publisher offered me a contract to write a book under a title that would be something like "Unscientific America", how would I go about it?
I would definitely be SUCH a scientist! But, being such a scientist does not mean indulging in Sesquipedalian Obscurantism. Being such a scientist means…
December 22, 2009
As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one click. Here are my own picks for the…
December 22, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Cameron Neylon is a Senior Scientist at the ISIS Pulsed Neutron…
December 21, 2009
For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things…
December 21, 2009
As you know you can see everyone who's registered for the conference, but I highlight 4-6 participants every day as this may be an easier way for you to digest the list. You can also look at the Program so see who is doing what.
Tom Levenson is the Director of the Graduate Program in the Writing…
December 21, 2009
There are 25 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Mendeley, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with…
December 20, 2009
Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
- Betty Smith
December 19, 2009
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
- Bette Davis
December 19, 2009
Continuing with the introductions to the sessions on the Program, here is what will happen on Sunday, January 17 at 9:00-10:05am:
A. Earth Science, Web 2.0+, and Geospatial Applications - Jacqueline Floyd and Chris Rowan
Description: We will discuss online and mobile applications for earth science…
