Some Memorable Dishes from the Kitchen in 2009
As 2009 comes to an end, here is a selection of entries that left an especially nice flavor on the palette.
As 2009 comes to an end, here is a selection of entries that left an especially nice flavor on the palette.
Change is hard to notice, and this video shows how blind we can be, even when challenged to spot it.
It’s the holidays, so time to watch some crime dramas. Look for these modern cliches as you enjoy the thrills.
The companies behind social networks and media are running into conflicts with their users as they try to generate revenue from their services. Recent moves by Google, Facebook and AT&T are all sparking controversy as each encounters opposition to their business models from their customers.
Do medical editors have different quality standards based on the author’s geographic location?
Two fiction publishers decide to delay release of their e-books, further marginalizing their books. Meanwhile, an STM book publisher gets it right.
How much more data will it take before everyone gets it?
Social media is becoming the norm. Will laggards be viewed as anti-social in 2010?
Can one ideologue really hijack the OSTP forum on Open Access implementation?
Is it ethical for editors to alert authors of relevant in-journal articles?
Do stickers point to integrated data in the real-world? Or is augmented reality easier to accomplish? What could data integrated into the real world mean to science and research?
What early design compromises in building the Internet are still with us today? How does it add expense to running sites? Can we upgrade an entire planet?
The new Nook is over-packaged, and has design and technical issues that keep it from competing well with the Kindle. Too bad.
National Academy of Sciences members contribute the very best (and very worst) articles in PNAS, a recent analysis suggests. Is diversity a better indicator of success than consistency in science publishing?
As Google adds real-time Web features to its search over the next few days, it may be the last nail in the coffin for publisher-centric commodity information.