- The discovery of high temperature superconductivity
- Interesting commentary piece in Nature.
- Cambridge Science Festival
- Looks like fun. I’m amused by the contrast to New York’s “World Science Festival”. According to the site, “The Cambridge Science Festival is the first and only full-scale celebration of science and technology in the United States.”
- Review of the fraction of papers available via Open Access
- Virtual Observatory – Wikipedia
- “A virtual observatory is a collection of interoperating data archives and software tools which… form a … research environment in which astronomical research programs can be conducted.”
- The International Virtual Observatory Alliance
- The idea seems to be to make the world one big observatory, to paraphrase “one big lab”.
- Darwin Online: Darwin’s Publications
- Kevin Kelly: Digital Things I’ve been Wrong About
- Anil Dash: The Creative Environment
- Dash is doing a survey of people’s creative environments. Some of the responses are interesting.
- New York Times: Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All
- This study is getting a lot of press. I don’t understand the fuss, since happiness studies don’t measure happiness. Why we’re supposed to believe a response of “8” from the US has any relationship to another “8” from the US, let alone India, is beyond me
- Not Even Wrong: Multimedia and the Journal of Number Theory
- The Journal of Number Theory will now allow a four-minute video abstract for papers. It’d be interesting to allow a ten-minute extended abstract – I bet a lot of papers could be explained quite well in ten minutes.
- Publishers Beware: Amazon has you in their sights – O’Reilly Radar
- Interesting motto: “At O’Reilly, we have a motto: ‘Create more value than you capture.'” It’d be nice to combine this with Google’s “Don’t be evil”.
- Whimsley: Here Comes Everybody
- A perceptive review of Clay Shirky’s excellent book.
- Is magic ever magic to the magician?
- Directory of open access journals
- Make Textbooks Affordable
- “1,000 Professors Sign Statement for Affordable Textbooks”
- Everything you needed to know about human-created life forms but were afraid to ask
- The first in an excellent five-part series on synthetic biology. It’s worth reading the comments as well.
- Ten Thousand Cents
- “‘Ten Thousand Cents’ is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task.”
- wiki.dbpedia.org
- “DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.”
- Collaborative Thinking: Objects That Blog: Expanding The Architecture Of Participation
- Synthetic biology (Wired article)
- Worldwide Protein Data Bank
- Free and public archive of macromolecular structural data.
- Science in the open: Bursty science depends on openness
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