With all of this election hoopla going around, all of the claims by candidates, debates, and invective, it’s difficult sometimes to figure out what candidates really represent.
Or, it was. All you have to do (assuming they already hold a political office) is check out Project Vote Smart.
Just punch in the name of the representative of […]

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There has been a lot of buzz lately about the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader — new electronic-paper-based e-book readers that have a variety of features and advantages. Great. However, they’re both expensive. More annoyingly in my mind, they are also an additional device to lug around and keep charged. They will […]

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Have you noticed that everything is named in CamelCase these days? Anyway…
I’ve had a couple of conversations with Dr. Rachel Karchin here at the ICM regarding Open Access scientific publishing, and PLoS specifically. Last week, she forwarded an email to me regarding PubCasts on SciVee. (Example here.)
A “PubCast” is basically the same thing as […]

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Per the SHERPA RoMEO project, it is permitted to self-publish or archive scientific articles from the Heart Rhythm Journal.
As such, I have completed the layout of the only HR article on which I am an author, and published it here. The final version of the article as laid out by Heart Rhythm is available here, […]

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I’m not the only one harping on about open access to scientific journals. I’ve linked to at least two other blogs discussing the issue, and I’m sure there are hundreds more.
I wrote in January about an article in Nature that highlighted the PR offensive being launched by the major science publishers.
That effort has apparently borne […]

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