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Tweetlinks, 10-07-09

By clock on October 7, 2009.

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Buying a Coke in Africa: are there lessons for malaria?

The Paleo Paper Challenge in the Blogosphere (see also)

RT @anthonymobile: The Open Laboratory 2008 anthology of science blogs is one of the most fun things i've read in ages

Uses and Abuses of Nobel Causes

"One day it's bound to happen. The same person will get an igNobel one day and then a Nobel the following week. For the same research."

Review of "Creation" by science educator James Williams

2009 #Nobel09 Prize in Chemistry: *really* a chemistry prize & The Awesome Power of Natural Products: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz, and Ada Yonath win 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

A big shift in in news: from "site" to "application...": Research: Social media publications may have advantage over traditional news sites

Eight Public Media 2.0 Projects That Are Doing it Right - w00t! for Scienceblogs.com!

Pre OA Week Activites in Ireland

Readers expect news to find them: "If the news is that important, it will find me."

What is relevant to my research right now?

Old Media vs. New Media: Let's call this one off: "The war ended. The prophets turned out to be correct."

Worth a Thousand Birds

Rational Irrationality - The real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone

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