Last week in the blogs
It is Monday again, so you have a week of work to look forward to, but first, here’s a list of blog posts and news items from last week I think you should read!
Biology
- Protein sequencing gone awry: 1 sample, 27 labs, 20 results (Ars Technica)
- Altruistic chimpanzees clearly help each other out (Not Exactly Rocket Science)
- Superfreaks about the face (Gene Expression)
- The Fitness Cost of Resistance Could Be… (Mike the Mad Biologist)
Genetics
- Why the indigenous still dominate the Andean region (Gene Expression)
- Personal Genome Project: waiting list now 13000 long (John Hawks)
- The next generation of genome-wide association studies (Genetic Future)
Intellectual Property
- “A Breakthrough In Data Licensing For Open Science” (Common Knowledge)
- “Could You Patent the Sun?” (Mike the Mad Biologist)
- Reminder from the MPAA: DRM trumps your fair use rights (Ars Technica)
- Lawyer: RIAA must pay back all $100M it has collected (Ars Technica)
- Copyleft v. Copyright: FSF, RIAA face off in court (Ars Technica)
Paleontology
- Sahelanthropus: Did camelherders bury Toumaï facing Mecca? (John Hawks)
- Darwinius
- Human Descent from Lemurs? Could be, sortalike (Neuron Culture)
- Poor, poor Ida, Or: “Overselling an Adapid” (Laelaps)
- No, it’s not an ancestor either (Evolving Thoughts)
- Getting to know “Ida” (Laelaps)
- Interview w/ The Scientist on Ida’s Media Strategy (Framing Science)
Programming
- Fetching docstrings from objects: easy, right? A painful exploration of the Python object model (Void Space)
- Book review: “Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt” by Mark Summerfield (Eli Bendersky)
- More PyQt plotting demos (Eli Bendersky)
- Make text stand out with outlines (Revolutions)
- How to Motivate Programmers (Coding Horror)
Space
- Habitable planets & Alpha Centauri (Gene Expression)
- To the stars! (John Hawks)
Statistics
- Profile of R creator Ross Ihaka (Revolutions)
- Taming tapply (Revolutions)
- Difficulties in communication, the reader is always right, etc etc (Statistical Modeling)
- Handy statistical lexicon (Statistical Modeling)
The Web
- Mozilla preparing to scrap tabbed browsing? (PC Pro)
- Online social networking isn’t for everyone (Confessions of a Science Librarian)
- How Google’s cute “doodles” became Satan’s pawns (Ars Technica)
- Cloud computing (Good Math, Bad Math)
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