September 18, 2009
at the NC Zoo (photo taken by iPhone)
September 18, 2009
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are certainly aware that PLoS has started making article-level metrics available for all articles.
Today, we added one of the most important sets of such metrics - the number of times the article was downloaded. Each article now has a new tab on the top…
September 18, 2009
Friday Ark #261 is up on Modulator
September 17, 2009
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
- A. E. Houseman
September 17, 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 Kevin Emamy from CiteULike…
September 17, 2009
Just a few updates on the progress in the organization of ScienceOnline2010 to those of you who do not follow me (or scio10) on Twitter.
The main event - the actual sessions of the conference - will be held, like last two years, in the beuatiful building of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research…
September 17, 2009
The latest edition of Change of Shift is up at Medic 999
I and the Bird #109 is up on Madras Ramblings
September 16, 2009
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we will make the goal.
- Jerome P. Fleishman
September 16, 2009
A) If you click on any individual post on any Scienceblogs.com blog, you will see new sharing buttons on the bottom which make it very easy for you to, with a single click, send the link to that post to Twitter, Facebook and other social networking services (or e-mail to friends).
B) There is a new…
September 16, 2009
There are 15 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…
September 15, 2009
In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men.
- Homer
September 15, 2009
Today PLoS ONE published a paper describing a very cool new fossil of a sauropod from Niger - an exquisitely preserved, almost complete skeleton. Of course, you can read it for free at:
A New Basal Sauropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the Early Evolution of Sauropoda:
Background…
September 15, 2009
There are 23 awesome 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…
September 15, 2009
17 years ago, there were no broods of periodic cicadas emerging (and also none this year). But that year something much more momentous happened, on this day exactly - Catharine changed her name....into something translatable as 'The Bride Of Coturnix' ;-)
Happy anniversary, medawlin'
And what she…
September 15, 2009
There is a new site for you to bookmark today - Futurity.org. This is a collaborative effort of, for now, 35 major Universities in the United States (those include, for my local readers, UNC and Duke - why is NCSU lagging behind?!).
The site is the answer to the question:
How will the public learn…
September 14, 2009
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
- Alice Meynell
September 14, 2009
Monday, Monday - let's see what's new. 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…
September 14, 2009
A new video by Clifford V. Johnson:
September 14, 2009
Introducing the Briefly series. Taking theory and presenting it in it's most concise form.
We start with the Big Bang because the theory is important and amazing, but often misunderstood.
This video was produced without any funding from any outside sources. It was put together with donated creative…
September 14, 2009
....is now posted on everyONE blog.
September 14, 2009
The 75th edition of Encephalon is up on Ionian Enchantment
September 13, 2009
Annual consumption is a function of people's expected lifetime earnings - not just their income at the current time.
- Milton Friedman
September 13, 2009
Here are the submissions for OpenLab 2009 to date. As we have surpassed 360 entries, all of them, as well as the "submit" buttons and codes and the bookmarklet, are under the fold. You can buy the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions at Lulu.com. Please use the submission form to add more of your and…
September 12, 2009
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
- Anthony Trollope
September 11, 2009
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
- George Carlin
September 11, 2009
I heard someone else in the blogosphere does this on Fridays, but I could not resist stomping into his territory as this video is Teh Awesome, from the Seaplex expedition - a dead Giant Squid, torn apart by hungry marine biologists:
September 11, 2009
There are 22 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…
September 11, 2009
The latest edition of Scientia Pro Publica is up on Southern Fried Science
The 119th Skeptics' Circle is up on Cubik's Rube
Friday Ark #260 is up on Modulator
September 10, 2009
Only when an organization exists in stable circumstances, when its operations resemble clockwork, unvarying in their practices, can individuals be taken for granted or ignored without peril.
- Rosabeth Moss-Kanter
