Nov 5, 2009

Twitter science list categories

Posted in Geek, Science at 8:45 am by David Bradley -- 15 Comments; add yours

 

List name
Following

scientwists

500

archaeo
7
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Oct 22, 2009

A month with an electricity monitor

Posted in Geek, Science at 2:00 pm by David Bradley -- 5 Comments; add yours

 

Right, the kettle is on for a morning brew and apparently our household is using 3.07 kilowatts. That will include the chest freezer in the garage, the refrigerator in the kitchen, the electric kettle, my laptop and wireless network, oh and a little device sitting on my desk right now that’s monitoring all those electrons as they speed through the mains supply cable.

The monitor …

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Sep 15, 2009

File Sharing for Scientists

Posted in Geek, Science at 3:30 pm by David Bradley -- 22 Comments; add yours

 

In the olden days, scientists used to send out paper reprints of their research papers to colleagues…maybe they still do. I get the occasional request for such an archaic entity for the items I have had published in Science, PNAS, and other journals.

These days, you’re more likely to simply ask for an eprint of a scientific paper, probably a PDF, possibly a doc …

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