Nov 7, 2011
An odd mix of books landed on my desk during recent weeks from publishers keen to hear my thoughts on their authors’ output. First up is another owner’s manual from Haynes, this time it’s the Millennium Falcon, a modified YT-1300 Corellian Freighter. Rather than giving you the knowledge to change your spark plugs and adjust your tappets, this manual …
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Nov 3, 2011
Tony Hirst has been playing with altmetric and reveals a graph of the who the science literati are listening to on Twitter. By drilling down, he’s also revealed some of the most trusted accounts in the scientific domain by limiting the graph to those accounts followed by 100 or more of the folk who sent papers mentioning the pertinent tweets. No, I don’t quite get it …
Jun 24, 2011
The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty – “In today’s unpredictable and chaotic world, we look to science to provide certainty and answers–and often blame it when things go wrong. The Blind Spot reveals why our faith in scientific certainty is a dangerous illusion, and how only by embracing science’s inherent ambiguities and paradoxes can we truly appreciate its beauty and …
Jun 23, 2011
Science goes mobile #SciMobileApps – ChemConnector Tony Williams nudged me towards a relatively new initiative to help science "get" mobile. Mobile apps for science are expanding in scope and capability very quickly, yet there is no easy way to source information regarding what is available, what the community thinks of these apps (in terms of general reviews) and clustering of these apps into functional groupings. This wiki aims to remedy that situation. It is …
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