Archive for October, 2012

average age of a chemistry nobel prize laureate

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/lists/laureates_ages/chemistry_ages.html

Economics and genetics meet in uneasy union

Friday, October 12th, 2012

From EK:”
A very long paper discussing how genetic diversity of a population is related to economic development-
http://ideas.repec.org/p/bro/econwp/2010-7.html
…. featured in as Science Editor’s choice !!
[but]… enough people were disturbed by it
so they wrote up a comment in Nature…”

http://www.nature.com/news/economics-and-genetics-meet-in-uneasy-union-1.11565

authorship issues

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7417-591a
Particularly relevant to genomics and refers to authorship on the main ENCODE paper
QT:”
Biagioli agrees that delineating each person’s contribution should help, but he says that the descriptions are frequently too brief. As an example, he cites the study published this month in Nature by the ENCODE Project Consortium [the ENCODE “main paper”] . It ascribes generic tasks such as “data analysis”, “writing” or “scientific management” to large sets of authors, making it impossible to tell, for example, who analysed which data.

Flows of Research Manuscripts Among Scientific Journals Reveal Hidden Submission Patterns

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/10/10/science.1227833.abs

TIME Magazine: Genetic Science: How Far Do We Go? – Jan. 17, 1994

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19940117,00.html
Interesting how much has changed… & remained the same

Internet Infringement: Right-Click Conflicts | Shutterbug

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://www.shutterbug.com/content/internet-infringement-right-click-conflicts
practical guide to getting ripped off on the internet

Info on VPNs

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://www.expressvpn.com
http://www.vpn-providers.net
http://www.vpnreviews.com
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9205401/3_personal_VPNs_offer_safer_Wi_Fi http://lifehacker.com/5759186/five-best-vpn-service-providers

Nobel for Quantum ‘Parlor Trick’ That Could Make Super Computers – NYTimes.com

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2012/10/09/world/europe/09reuters-nobel-physics.html

A Dragon That Takes Dictation and Controls a Mac by Voice – WSJ.com

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443982904578046583290174540.html

Nuance Dragon Dictate 3 Voice Recognition Software for Mac Review – Walter S. Mossberg – Personal Technology – AllThingsD

Friday, October 12th, 2012

http://allthingsd.com/20121009/a-dragon-that-takes-dictation-and-controls-a-mac-by-voice