Infographic by Thomas Porostocky for WIRED.
Of course Labrigger emphatically supports the work of the Gates Foundation. However, we have to disagree with Bill Gates’ choice for Graph of the Year. Topic,…
A famous speech from 1961 is being quoted in the media recently, and it might be interesting to Labrigger readers that the same speech offered some thoughts about the future relationship between science and…
Unfortunately, the book itself is not open, but it has a couple of chapters available online.
(Elsevier store)
(via)
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C-SPAN had a in depth, on air discussion on the role of the NIH, the impact of budget cuts, and the future of the NIH.
Guests included:
Dr. Francis Collins, Director, NIH
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director,…
Welcome to 13 years ago. Current NIH funding is at about the same level it was in 2000. The doubling has been undone, and we’re now at a level that is far…
It’s Friday. Here’s a Friday link. It’s a blog entitled That’s Not How You Pipette, and it includes lots of shots from TV shows and movies.
The one below is from Private Practice:
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PubMed has a new feature: you can comment on the papers using PubMed Commons.
PubPeer, the now-defunct Third Reviewer, reference managers, and journals have offered post-publication peer review for a while…
The US government is working again. And, as promised, the NIH has issued revised due dates for grants. NOT-OD-14-003
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Although Labrigger got some positive feedback on the last redesign, some of the more obsessive readers complained that the tile/card format made it difficult to systematically review…
In a spartan office looking across Lake Geneva to the French Alps, Henry Markram is searching for a suitably big metaphor to describe his latest project. “It’s going to be the Higgs boson of…
