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My doctorate supervisor was fond of telling me that I had to keep a good lab notebook in case I “walked under a bus” one morning. Although I was utterly convinced of the necessity of accurate records, somehow this particular exhortation didn’t have quite the desired effect on my attitude. Maybe he should have warned…
Nature News posted a piece on Friday about a new enterprise Science Exchange which its co-founder, Elizabeth Irons, describes as: ‘an ebay, but for Scientific Knowledge’. Cool idea and obviously born of a real need to get things done. As Dr Irons recounts, the genesis for the idea was when she wanted to commission experiments…
If you’re into mass sequencing, the $1000 genome and all that jazz, you’ve probably already seen the paper in today’s Nature from the Rothberg group at Life Technologies, on the Ion Torrent sequencing technology. There’s a rather scathing take-down of the paper (not the technology itself, mind) by Daniel MacArthur over on his Wired blog.…
Oil gets everywhere. At a quick guess, about fifty percent by mass of what’s on my desk is derived from petroleum products. Yours is probably similar–and just think of all the plastics you get through in a lab. These all start out as crude oil or natural gas, and more often than not end up…
Web of Stories has just released new footage of an interview with Marvin Minsky: Artificial Intelligence Pioneer, inventor of the confocal microscope, and co-founder of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (among other things).
One of my laments concerning the internet age is that not enough publishers use high quality metadata to identify their content. By metadata, I mean hidden parts of content which seek to describe that content. So metadata can be loosely defined as data which is explicitly concerned with data. In essence it tells us what…
