Apr 27, 2010
Posted in Science at 7:20 am by David Bradley -- Click to comment
These are a few of the science stories that caught my eye this past week:
Hubble’s 20th anniversary treat – A stupendous image of a distant region of space, colour enhanced (of course) but amazing nevertheless.
Draft White Paper – Researcher identifiers – How about a "SciID", like OpenID or a DOI but for identifying individual researchers? A barcode tattoo would get you into conferences you'd paid for too…or maybe not…
Norway: brainwashed science on …
Apr 8, 2010
Posted in Science at 1:00 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment
The self-proclaimed “best in science writing on blogs” brings us once again a wide range of posts from the great and the good of the scientific blogosphere. The project was started with Bora Zivkovic (Blog Around the Clock) who recognised that science blogs were taking on a more and more relevant role in the sharing of research results. Without wishing to get into the debates and arguments that often emerges …
Feb 10, 2010
Posted in Science at 10:11 am by David Bradley -- 24 Comments; add yours
UPDATE: 2011-01-20 Version 3.0 now released, much reduced filesize, added OpenOffice fork, add lots of user-suggested words.
Chemist Adam Azman contacted me more than two years ago to ask if I knew of a free or open source chemistry spellchecker custom dictionary for Word or OpenOffice. Searches had revealed only paid-for dictionaries. We both agreed that a free chemical spellchecker would be very useful to all scientists working with chemicals, so Adam set …
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