Last two weeks in the blogs
Monday, June 29th, 2009Due to exams and such, I didn't put up my list last week, so here you have it for the last two...
Astronomy and cosmology
- Kicking a planet out of the Solar System... physically (Ars Technica)
- Exploring a universe where nothing isn't empty (Ars Technica)
Blogging
- Nature News article on conference blogging (Genetic Future)
- Creating a "blog-safe" icon for conference presentations: suggestions? (Genetic Future)
- Blogging and reporting from meetings (John Hawks)
- Conference blogging continued (Johnn Hawks)
Epidemiology
- Vaccine refuseniks are free-riders (Adventures in Ethics and Science)
- The Associated Press on a roll: Actual articles on cancer quackery (Respectful Insolence)
- Origins of the swine flu pandemic (Not Exactly Rocket Science)
- Swine flu: pandemic pre-history (Effect Measure)
Genomics
- The Double Standard of Genomic Data Release and the Role of Incentives (Mike the Mad Biologist)
- Illumina launches personal genome sequencing service for $48,000 (Genetic Future)
- Spatial variation and near-fixed selected alleles (John Hawks)
- The world's most annotated man (Genetic Future)
Intellectual Property
- Lawyers plan class-action to reclaim "$100M+" RIAA "stole" (Ars Technica)
Programming
- High scale design patterns (missing) in the life sciences (bbgm)
- Safely using destructors in Python (Eli Bendersky)
- Small HPC (Linux Magazine)
- Remember your in operator (California Dreams)
- Why Parrot is important (Linux Magazine)
- Partitioning with Python (Word Aligned)
Research Life
- Open access publisher accepts nonsense manuscript for dollars (The Scholarly Kitchen)
- The broken grant review system (John Hawks)
Statistics
- How much of a threat are meteors to aviation? (Revolutions)
- The sample size is huge, so a p-value of 0.007 is not that impressive (Statistical Modeling)
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180-176=+4