science
Ada Lovelace Day: Lisa Jardine Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/03/lisa_qmul2.jpg] *This post is my contribution to Ada Lovelace Day [http://findingada.com/] in which over a thousand bloggers are celebrating the women they admire in technology. * I first met Lisa Jardine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Social Networks & Children's Brains Paid Members Public
Ah, nothing like a [rational, calm, provable headline](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1153583/Social-websites-harm-childrens-brains-Chilling-warning-parents-neuroscientist.html) to boost the public’s trust in journalists.Spotted in Waitrose last night. Debunked [not long after I got home](http://www.badscience.net/2009/02/the-evidence-aric-sigman-ignored/). Noted: shallow, sensationalist reporting in a
Free Medical Journals From Reed Paid Members Public
Good news from other parts of the vast Reed Empire [http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/2007/09/reeds-rx-conver.html]. Reed Elsevier, which does all that pricey scientific publishing, is starting to make some of its titles free on the web. Good stuff.
Ways to Warm to Wikipedia Paid Members Public
The good Doctor Tinworth, my wife Lorna, has told me many times how Wikipedia is becoming a battleground in universities, particularly in the sciences. More and more students are handing in papers which cite only Wikipedia as a source. Anyone who knows anything about how scientific literature functions, and the
Faith, Science and Chocolate Eggs Paid Members Public
So, it’s Easter Sunday, and I’m going to do something I rarely do here: talk a (very) little about faith. First up, there’s an interesting piece on CNN about the head of the Human Genome Project and why he has Christian faith [http://www.cnn.com/2007/
pluto stripped of title, inquiry to be held Paid Members Public
The headline on a BBC news alert that just dropped into my in-box is: > **Pluto stripped of planet status ** Did it fail a drugs test?
links for 2006-01-25 Paid Members Public
* [There may be some values in publishing stocks](http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/23/news/companies/publishing/index.htm) See, there’s life in the dead tree industry, still.(tags: [journalism](http://del.icio.us/adders/journalism) [media](http://del.icio.us/adders/media) [publishing](http://del.icio.us/
Animal Rights: Deadly games of childish politics Paid Members Public
The problem is, of course, that many of these activists live in little self-reinforcing circles of fanatical belief. Make no mistake, that’s what they are: fanatics who believe their own conviction puts them above the law. Certainly they show a fanatic’s contempt for the law. With no-one within
