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11:13 AM
by Garrett
A Humanist's Sojourn Among Scientists Leonard Cassuto finds physicists a pleasant and cooperative lot compared with some in his own discipline. From the Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription required)
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10:03 AM
by Garrett
Resource Guide - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology A fine overview of journals, textbooks, handbooks and web sites from the University of Alberta library. (Source: the (Sci-Tech) Library Question, a new weblog maintained by Randy Reichardt)
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4:23 PM
by Garrett
Nature Neuroscience weighs in on the question of preprint archives versus journals and decides there's no competition, that they are "complementary rather than competitors".
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4:01 PM
by Garrett
CBS News | Your Private Life For Sale | May 1, 2003 14:59:23 Very interesting ... and disillusioning ... (Source; Michelle's Research Resources Online)
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3:59 PM
by Garrett
spam combat: tracing spam This is interesting, if one can take the time to read and decipher it. (Source: Michelle's Research Resources Online (read more than one blog)) Note: doesn't really work and they haven't bothered to fix it ...
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3:24 PM
by Garrett
Scholarly Associations and the Economic Viability of Open Access Publishing: Willinsky: JoDISource: The ResourceShelf
Posted
3:21 PM
by Garrett
Exploring new ways of publishing: a library-faculty partnership from the Journal of the Medical Library Association. Gary Price's ResourceShelf pointed me to the issue. Reflects one university library's attempt to work with faculty to use BioMEdCentral as a
viable alternative to publishing in high-cost journals.
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2:58 PM
by Garrett
On the Net - Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities An article on URL tricks by Greg Notess. His presentation on alternatives to Google at Monday's NEASIS forum was quite good.
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2:12 PM
by Garrett
The Grammar of Sound, a Technology Review article, discusses advances in software for browsing and indexing audio files. (Sources: Technology Review e-update; The ResourceShelf)
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1:51 PM
by Garrett
InterDok - MInd: The Meetings Index This is a free database of future conferences. You can choose a keyword from one of four categories (e.g. science/technology - there's quite a list, actually, I found one on spintronics - but it was closed), or choose from a list of sponsors or geographic locations. there's also a submission form for listing an upcoming meeting. (source:
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11:51 AM
by Garrett
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Volume 15, Number 18, special issue on Nanophysics of Life Systems
Posted
11:49 AM
by Garrett
a review paper by Rowland fellow Amit Meller on polynucleotide travel through nanopores
Posted
11:41 AM
by Garrett
SARS genome sequenced (Science magazine) ... Busy week in genomics; first bacillus anthracis (Nature, 5/1/03), now the SARS-virus.
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9:50 AM
by Garrett
Why Blogs Haven't Stormed the Business World, an article in E-Commerce Times, suggests that while Blogging tools make it easy for people to publish, the content is not particularly "portable". (Source: Weblogs at Harvard Law: News Aggregator)
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4:45 PM
by Garrett
Also in this week's Nature, Getting organized, an article on recent efforts of postdocs to associate with one another; articles on ion channel structures, the hydrophobic effect, bacterial genomics, etc.
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4:37 PM
by Garrett
Editorial peer-review for improving the quality of reports of biomedical studies. While we're on the subject, a recent report paints a fairly negative picture of the peer-review process. (Thanks Gerry McKiernan!) See also a short commentary on the above in BMJ
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4:20 PM
by Garrett
Improving science through online commentary, an interesting letter to Nature, suggests, for example, that links be provided in PubMed for people to post comments; the authors call it "the electronic version of a post-it note" and state that forums for such commentary and debate are altogether too limited. (They say such comment forms are available in the Social Security Death Index; to what end, do you suppose - so that one can say "I'm not dead yet ... I'm feeling better ..."?!?
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4:13 PM
by Garrett
Nature news story on nanotechnology in living cells, while we're at it. (Requires Harvard ID; sorry) Mentions probes used to sense DNA, microfluidic technologies, fluorescently-labelled nanoparticles, and interviews a number of scientists who've formed a group around some of these initiatives, the Alliance for NanoSystems Biology.
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2:18 PM
by Garrett
Interview with Eric Drexler on New Scientist web site. Drexler, one of the most visible proponents of nanotechnology, addresses health concerns and other criticisms about the field. Some of the most vocal criticisms have come from the Canadian ETC Group.
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2:09 PM
by Garrett
A single website for federal government grant listings? May debut in October 2003. (Source: EngLib, April 30, 2003)
Posted
11:09 AM
by Garrett
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) announced 72 newly elected members yesterday. Interesting roster, including a record number of women. Read story.
(Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, Daily Update, April 30, 2003)