Comments on: Online Science http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-3#comment-653874 David Bradley Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:41:35 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-653874 Is this a homework question Michele? I'm not sure I understand it. Perhaps you should think about it the other way. Energy cannot be destroyed, only converted from one form into another, so rather than ask how energy is conserved, ask how could it not be conserved during a transformation. Regarding the car, a small proportion of the fuel itself is used to drive engine components (other than the obvious pistons and crank) and even to charge the battery, which is why running the air-conditioning, for instance, reduces your driving fuel efficiency overall. Is this a homework question Michele? I’m not sure I understand it. Perhaps you should think about it the other way. Energy cannot be destroyed, only converted from one form into another, so rather than ask how energy is conserved, ask how could it not be conserved during a transformation.

Regarding the car, a small proportion of the fuel itself is used to drive engine components (other than the obvious pistons and crank) and even to charge the battery, which is why running the air-conditioning, for instance, reduces your driving fuel efficiency overall.

]]> By: michele http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-3#comment-653793 michele Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:54:09 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-653793 How is energy conserved in a transformation? What energy is pumping gas in a car? How is energy conserved in a transformation? What energy is pumping gas in a car?

]]> By: Peter http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-3#comment-567564 Peter Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:29:34 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-567564 I am a full-time researcher from NZ, working in Japan, at a museum with many international research visitors. This multilingual environment made me very aware of: (1) the difficulties that non-English based researchers face when using English, and (2) the difficulties that English mono-linguals face when trying to access or publish research in other important research languages, such as Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French, and so on. Hence my website: The Research Cooperative - http://cooperative.ning.com More on this on <a href="http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2008/10/24/11646/305" rel="nofollow">SciScoop</a> Please have a look, join if you want, and please tell any friends and colleagues about this site if you think they might find it useful. Thanks, Peter I am a full-time researcher from NZ, working in Japan, at a museum with many international research visitors. This multilingual environment made me very aware of:

(1) the difficulties that non-English based researchers face when using English, and

(2) the difficulties that English mono-linguals face when trying to access or publish research in other important research languages, such as Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, French, and so on.

Hence my website: The Research Cooperative – http://cooperative.ning.com

More on this on SciScoop

Please have a look, join if you want, and please tell any friends and colleagues about this site if you think they might find it useful.

Thanks, Peter

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-3#comment-444975 David Bradley Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:03:55 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-444975 Thanks Joerg. I'm going to contact you via email about a related aspect of this wrt another of my sites. db Thanks Joerg. I’m going to contact you via email about a related aspect of this wrt another of my sites.

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]]> By: Joerg Kurt Wegner http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-3#comment-444557 Joerg Kurt Wegner Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:14:21 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-444557 Thanks for discussing this topic and I commented via <a href="http://miningdrugs.blogspot.com/2008/06/science-editorial-social-or-both.html" rel="nofollow">miningdrugs.blogspot.com</a> on <a href="http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/2008/04/07/web-20-in-defense-of-editors/" rel="nofollow">David Crotty's comments</a>. Thanks for discussing this topic and I commented via miningdrugs.blogspot.com on David Crotty’s comments.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-2#comment-395766 David Bradley Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:14:55 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-395766 Yes, good point Martin. Alexa has finally recognised that it's old system based on its spying toolbar is not the greatest way to rank websites and has add several new traffic-validated sources to its system. Good news for Sciencebase, which jumped <em>back</em> into the Top 100,000 websites just this week. db Yes, good point Martin. Alexa has finally recognised that it’s old system based on its spying toolbar is not the greatest way to rank websites and has add several new traffic-validated sources to its system. Good news for Sciencebase, which jumped back into the Top 100,000 websites just this week.

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]]> By: Martin Lock http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-2#comment-395725 Martin Lock Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:50:43 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-395725 If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you will definitely want to increase your http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.sciencebase.com Alexa rank, because it will increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing. If you depend on link or site selling as a form of monetization you will definitely want to increase your http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main?url=www.sciencebase.com Alexa rank, because it will increase your bargaining power when it comes to ad pricing.

]]> By: Jean-Claude Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-2#comment-385513 Jean-Claude Bradley Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:05:20 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-385513 I think a lot of people will find this post useful to understand the potential role of social software in science. Concerning openness, Rajarshi points out that he likes to keep some ideas private until he can flesh them out. That is understandable and is not really a problem for Open Science. Where we run into problems with people not being open is making claims about their research without fully backing them up with access to the raw data. And here social software is a golden opportunity because we can post these data sets freely without trying to convince publishers to change their format or policies. I think a lot of people will find this post useful to understand the potential role of social software in science. Concerning openness, Rajarshi points out that he likes to keep some ideas private until he can flesh them out. That is understandable and is not really a problem for Open Science. Where we run into problems with people not being open is making claims about their research without fully backing them up with access to the raw data. And here social software is a golden opportunity because we can post these data sets freely without trying to convince publishers to change their format or policies.

]]> By: Brian Gilman http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-2#comment-380648 Brian Gilman Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:43:02 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-380648 I asked my users of SciLink to tell me what web 2.0 and social media have helped them to do. I received many responses. The vast majority have discovered that the social web allows them to connect to a vibrant global community enabling them to share experiences, pre-publication information and ideas over the web. This could not have happened if it were not for the social web sites like ours. Try it out at SciLink -Brian Gilman --- Founder SciLink Inc. I asked my users of SciLink to tell me what web 2.0 and social media have helped them to do. I received many responses. The vast majority have discovered that the social web allows them to connect to a vibrant global community enabling them to share experiences, pre-publication information and ideas over the web. This could not have happened if it were not for the social web sites like ours.

Try it out at SciLink

-Brian Gilman
—
Founder
SciLink Inc.

]]> By: mr. gunn http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/online-science.html/comment-page-2#comment-379548 mr. gunn Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:45:39 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/?p=1517#comment-379548 Don't forget about <a href="http://connotea.org" rel="nofollow">Connotea</a> for finding papers you didn't know you needed to read. Don’t forget about Connotea for finding papers you didn’t know you needed to read.

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