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• An insurrection against “journal impact factors” in science?

  
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  Yes, an “insurrection” and meant in all seriousness and supported by name journals. Apparently, the original reason for creating the metric “journal impact factor”—average number of citations in a set period —was to determine what science journals cash-strapped academic libraries should order in the ...
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• Shabbir Ahmed Chowdhury, MD, Represents the North Carolina with Inclusion into Renowned Publication The Leading Physicians of the World

  
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  As a result of impeccable passion and quality patient care, Shabbir Ahmed Chowdhury, MD, has been selected to receive publication in The Leading Physicians of the World.  The International Association of Healthcare Professionals (IAHCP) is proud to welcome Dr. Chowdhury into a prestigious, supportive community for ...
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• Car Sharing: Future Looks Bright, Even with Some Cloudy Legal Issues

  
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  There’s just no stopping the sharing. Despite recent legal challenges to certain “peer-to-peer” car-sharing services, the range of sharing options keeps on expanding, making it easier and easier for consumers to skip taxis, traditional car rentals—and car ownership in general. Last week was quite the roller ...
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• Finovate Spring 2013: Prestadero Is A Mexican Peer To Peer Lending Marketplace

  
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  If you want to borrow money from a bank in Mexico the rates can be very high and if you want to invest what they pay you doesn’t even hold a proportion. Due to high concentration in the banking system and thus a lack of competition the spreads the banks enjoy are abnormally high. Given this situation it was only ...
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• College: A Lesson in Inequality

  
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  Rather than bridging economic disparities between students, higher education seems to be widening them; although Google’s new customizable maps sound like a great idea, they filter out a lot of useful information; and although some would like to blame the collapse of the middle class on the Internet, truth is it was ...
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• Baby geniuses: young guppies show number skills

  
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  I have vague memories of the first time I counted to a hundred. It felt like one of those landmarks like tying your shoes for yourself the first time, or riding the bicycle more than a few feet without the training wheels or dad holding you up. Of course, I dont come anywhere near Adam Spencer : Once when I was ...
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• High Noon — A Publisher Threatens to “Lunch” a Criminal Case Against Librarian Critic

  
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  Another publisher sues a librarian for opinions expressed on a blog. This time, the publisher is demanding $1 billion in damages and $10,000 for having to write the threatening letter in the first place. Continue reading »
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• 3 Bedroom Apartment / Flat for sale in Peer Mushalla, Zirakpur

  
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  east facing semifurnished 3BHK on 1st floorin peer mushalla zirakpur 3BHK with 3 washrooms having AC in all rooms, geysers in all washrooms, modular kitchen with RO and chimney, with free parking on ground floor more details..
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• Stephen C. Meyer and Peter Atkins debate intelligent design

  
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  This dialog occurred in 2010 on the Unbelievable radio show. I made a rough transcript, so please see below for that. The MP3 file is here . (60 minutes) Details: The documentary film “Expelled” is presented by US Actor Ben Stein and makes the case that scientists who question Darwinian orthodoxy and support ...
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• Peer to Peer Lending News Roundup – May 11, 2013

  
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  Tweet During the week I share the latest p2p lending news on  Twitter  as it happens. Then every Saturday I take the most interesting news items and blog posts from the past week and share them here. Google Glass And Lending Club Signal Changes At Google  from Forbes – More about Google than Lending Club ...
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• Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other

  
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  Wendy Kaufman: Both Lending Club and its much smaller rival, a company called Prosper, have been around for several years. But lately things have really taken off at both companies …. Google is teaming up with the nation’s largest peer-to-peer lender. The search and tech giant is investing $125 million in ...
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• Infrastructuring for Opening Production

  
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  * Article: Infrastructuring for opening production , from participatory design to participatory making? Anna Seravalli. Read the article here :
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• Proposed bill that would regulate NSF research funding faces backlash

  
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  Over the past several months, Congress has gotten rather upset by some of the research funded by arms of the federal government, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. That displeasure eventually prompted the House Science Committees chair, Lamar Smith (R-TX), to float a bill ...
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• The 5 Best Videos Of The Week

  
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  Have you watched the 15-minute Red Bull Music Academy documentary about DFA ? Or the hour-long Savages Ministry Of Sound show ? No? You should do those things. As ever, there was plenty of amazing music-related video on the internet this past week, and not all of it took the form of actual music videos. Some of it, ...
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• Space Monkey Changing Cloud Storage To Crowd Storage

  
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  KickStarter Friday – Space Monkey moves Cloud to many locations The current idea of Cloud storage is to have huge warehouses of computers where information is stored, along with web sites which are critical to business. The loss of a Could storage location can be huge until it is back up. Take the Amazon outages ...
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• A Word (or more) About the Importance of Sharing Our Stories

  
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  This week’s #PPDChat went off the charts with a lively discussion during both moderated hours when we pushed the question of blogging the tough stuff without seeming ungrateful for the good stuff that happens along with it. Suggested by Jamie over at James & Jax , the topic exploded with several people chiming ...
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• Peer to Peer Lending Piece on NPR

  
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  Tweet Normally, I include all p2p lending news stories in my weekly Saturday roundup. Occasionally, though, I feature the major stories here as soon as they happen. This is the case today. NPR’s Morning Edition has around 13 million listeners according to their website . This morning, they covered p2p ...
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• A Chinese guide to peer review

  
  Elsevier Connect: News and Insight for the Global Scientific Research Community — Authority: 138
  We hear all kinds of claims in the media and on the internet that are based on scientific studies. When faced with a headline that suggests genetically modified corn causes infertility or an Alzheimer’s drug increases the risk of heart attack, people have to work out what to believe. Which claims should be taken ...
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• The Limits of Crowdsourcing in the Scientific Disciplines

  
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  Social networking and crowdsourcing have attributes that may make them both incompatible with the goals and process of science. Can we accept that? Continue reading »
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• Nobody Works for You – What a Rock Band Can Teach You About Teamwork

  
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  The band Great Big Sea has a successful management philosophy: no one works for them, and they work for no one.   My all time favorite band is Great Big Sea . I’ve been following them since I stumbled on one of their concerts in 1997 and fell in love at first sight. The folk rock group, which hails from the ...
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