Last week in the blogs
Evolution
- Fence lizards versus fire ants: Evolutionary fail? (NeuroDojo)
- Was Smilodon a prehistoric can-opener? (Laelaps)
- What is your favorite transitional form? (Laelaps)
- The chromosomal Origin of Man (GeneExpression)
Programming
- Machine Learning in R, in a nutshell (Revolutions)
- OpenCL Tutorial – Memory access and layout (MacResearch)
- All aboard Grand Central (MacResearch)
- Making barplots with error bars in R (Revolutions)
- When “good enough” just doesn’t cut it (bbgm)
- I have three more links I want to share here, but MulticoreInfo.com is down right now so I’ll post them later…
Research life
- Now THIS is Open Science!!! (A blog around the clock)
- Do these claims look defamatory to you? (Adventures in ethics and science)
- “If we stand together as a community…” (DrugMonkey)
- The pain of not getting cited: oversight, laziness, or malice? (Tetrapod zoology)
- Butterfly sex and wild science: The curious tale of caterpillars and velvet worms (Dechronization)
- The new natural history (Byte size biology)
Science
- Laboring for the Earth and Big Science (Starts with a bang)
- What is the placebo effect, and is it getting stronger? (Gred Laden)
- The new and improved Hubble in brief (Starts with a bang)
- Calculating why we see classical behaviour in a quantum world (Ars Technica)
Teaching
- Inflation part 1 – A rant (The educational reform blog)
- Inflation part 2 – Inflation at the top (The educational reform blog)
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