Sciblogs is really quite chuffed to announce that we’ve been joined by another blogger (with a third to come later this week). Abhishek Tiwari, of Fisheye Perspective, has joined our fast-swelling ranks. He’s been blogging for a while now, about such things as bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, systems biology and science in general. Based in Auckland, Abhishek […]
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Introducing a new blogger: Forensic Scientist
A brief notice, for all our bloggers and readers. Sciblogs is pleased to announce the inclusion of a new blog: Forensic Scientist, by Dr Anna Sandiford. Anna is a forensic science consultant based here, in NZ. She’s been involved in the field for more than 10 years, and has assisted with cases both here and […]
Links I've enjoyed this last week…
…but didn’t have the time to post. For a number of reasons, including:madness at work (in a good way) , which is only set to increase due to the upcoming launch (yay!!) of Sciblogs. We’ve gotten some good coverage for it over the last few weeks, st…
Shrodinger's tobacco mosaic virus
I’m sure everyone is familiar with Shrodinger’s Cat, the infamous quantum-mechanical thought experiment (apparently, it was first posited as a sort of laughing attempt to put in real terms some of quantum mechanics’ more…interesting…theories). We…
Nature's data-sharing issue
Nature has published their special data-sharing issue, which can be found here. An extremely timely issue, I might add, give how topical the subject is (see here and here).There’s a lot of interesting stuff in here, including articles about what seems…
Reflexology quickie
I don’t have access to the full article, sadly (aaarg), so this tiny tidbit from the Medical Journal of Australia will have to do.In essence, it says that the evidence for reflexology working is, well, not there. Yes, the foot rub is quite cool (apart…
Name-dropping makes you obnoxious
“But”, I hear you murmer, “we knew this already!”And yes, intuitively, I guess many of us do. Despite this, it still doesn’t stop many people doing it, on a regular basis. Some might even say that networking somewhat encourages it. Well, networking …
The travelling salesman problem and bacterial computers
This post was generated by the marvellous webcomic, below, from David Malki’s Wondermark (a fascinating project in and of itself).As usual, click on the image to make it legible. Weblink here.Witticisms aside, the first thing that came to mind was the…
Magnetic monopoles?
Oh, this is too, too good.Only 2 days after a New Scientist article discussing some 13 phenomena that science is still unable to understand - including the fact that magnets don’t seem to come in a fashionable, slinkier ‘monopole’ - it’s been announced…
Cows and…seaweed?
The discussion of how to deal with ruminant emissions is now as pervasive as the emissions themselves, it seems.Here in NZ, we have the PGgRC, which has been set up to deal specifically with the issue. After all, something like a half of NZ’s emission…