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Roundup of missed stories – February 8, 2016
Developments I’d have liked to cover but haven’t been able to for lack of time. Continue reading
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Tagged bioaccumulative pollutants, calcium-48, compliance enforcement, cross-cultural studies, Erwin Schrodinger, fractality, gravitational time dilation, open-access publishing, particle aggregation models, roundup, self-awareness tests, The Selfish Gene, universal decoherence
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Roundup of missed stories – May 23, 2015
I’ve missed writing/commenting on so many science papers/articles in the two weeks following the launch of The Wire. The concepts in many of them would’ve made fun explainers, some required a takedown or two, and one had surprising ethical and … Continue reading
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Tagged BICEP2, EPR paradox, Max Planck Digital Library, open-access publishing, roundup, Sierpinski triangles, social anxiety disorder
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Predatory publishing, vulnerable prey
On December 29, the International Conference on Recent Innovations in Engineering, Science and Technology (ICRIEST) is kicked off in Pune. It’s not a very well-known conference, but might as well have been for all the wrong reasons. On December 16 … Continue reading
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Tagged Jeffrey Beall, open-access publishing, predatory publishers, scientific research, scientometrics, Sokal affair, University of Pune
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