(Graphs from The Independent (London), 21 June 2008)
Today was one of those days where lots of interesting stuff turns up. On the BBC, there was 2 very good pieces about the flaws in the scientific process, specifically closed peer review
via news.bbc.co.uk
The winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year award has been disqualified after judges ruled that the featured wolf was probably a “model”.
It is tough to imagine how you would go about getting this photo of a wild animal. The story given by the photographer [...]
You could be forgiven for thinking that this meeting was doomed from the outset, heavy snow across the UK making travel very difficult, even for those already in Edinburgh. Those of us in Newcastle just about managed to arrive on time, but there were plenty that didn’t. Despite this, a high proportion of posters still [...]
via flowingdata.com
The top visualization project of the year, according to FlowingData, is a project by Ben Fry, which shows changes to the theory of evolution over time. The project takes advantage of the publication of the
We are happy to announce that AppJet Inc. has been acquired by Google. The EtherPad team will continue its work on realtime collaboration by joining the Google Wave team.
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The EtherPad site will stay online through March 2010 with some restrictions.
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No new free public pads may be created. Your pads will [...]
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- pymzML - Python module for high throughput bioinformatics on mass spectrometry data. http://t.co/HJRqKHO5 #citeulike
- Return to work being hampered by return to work form, which is impossible to fill in on a Mac.
- Not the ideal end to the week. Blood tests and X-rays all for basically nothing. Still at least I'm home in time to have a proper weekend.
- @d_swan mine too! I assume we got the same email :)
- @jonoble I can't imagine the situation in which you would discover that...
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