Archive for July, 2015

Castle Bravo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Monday, July 6th, 2015

largest nuclear error: 3X off orig. 5 Megaton est.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

UPDATED: Bristol-Myers rips up its R&D group, adding, eliminating and moving 800-plus – FierceBiotech

Monday, July 6th, 2015

UPDATED: Bristol-Myers rips up its R&D group, adding, eliminating and moving 800-plus – FierceBiotech

Days of Our Digital Lives – The New York Times

Monday, July 6th, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/opinion/sunday/seth-stephens-davidowitz-days-of-our-digital-lives.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=0

Solar Power for Everyone – The New Yorker

Monday, July 6th, 2015

Power to the people
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/29/power-to-the-people Will utilities go for refitting homes w/ solar & more insulation? Or will they resist?

Not uploading to picasaweb | Eyefi Customer Community

Monday, July 6th, 2015

Googlecode redux: @eyeficard provides another example of a relied-on webservice pulling the plug on a loyal userbase
https://community.eyefi.com/eyefi/topics/not-uploading-to-picasaweb

The best way to manage your photos online in 2015

Monday, July 6th, 2015

The…way to manage your #photos
onlinehttp://www.theverge.com/2015/4/29/8467289/cloud-photo-storage-comparison-dropbox-icloud-flickr-onedrive-free Onedrive autotags, complementing Evernote OCR. What works best for hardcopy?

Cost of Reproducibility

Monday, July 6th, 2015

Cost of #Reproducibility http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002165 Estimated at almost $30B for life science research, based on 50% of studies not replicating

Publication delays at PLOS and 3,475 other journals

Monday, July 6th, 2015

#Publication delays at PLOS & 3,475 other[s] by @dhimmel http://blog.dhimmel.com/plos-and-publishing-delays Perhaps journals should provide on-time stats as airlines do

James Salter, a ‘Writer’s Writer’ Short on Sales but Long on Acclaim, Dies at 90 – The New York Times

Monday, July 6th, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/books/james-salter-a-writers-writer-short-on-sales-but-long-on-acclaim-dies-at-90.html

George Dyson (science historian) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Friday, July 3rd, 2015

the author !

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dyson_(science_historian)