I’ve just returned from a week away in North Yorkshire, and scanning through my RSS backlog and FriendFeed from while I was away, I notice a few interesting developments.
Zotero made a firm announcement of a standalone version of their excellent open-source reference management tool. I’ve been [...]
It’s nearly a week since Science Online London 2010 finished, and there’s been plenty of perspectives of the event posted already, neatly summed up by this post on ‘Of Schemes and Memes‘ on Nature Network. I wanted to add my own voice to the [...]
I haven’t seen one yet, so I took a few minutes to generate a Wordle from the #solo10 tweets over the last few days:
Tweets were pulled using the search API, and I dumped the text to [...]
In a rare move, I’m going to largely copy across a post from my work blog, because I hope it contains useful information. For background, I’m trying to write a simple python script that extracts particular metadata from a .RAW file, produced by a Thermo Finnigan mass spectrometer. Tools that exist for parsing these files [...]
I know that the beauty industry has made a habit of twisting science somewhat for it’s own ends (see this and this for instance), but this one takes the biscuit.
The wife spotted a piece in Harper’s Bazaar while she was in the hairdressers yesterday, about an amazing new beauty treatment (the [...]
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