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• Is Yammer really an appropriate communication tool for universities?

  
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  Have you heard about Yammer ? If not, you are not alone. Many people, who are otherwise familiar with social media like Facebook and Twitter, haven’t. The reason for the relative obscurity of this social network service, which was launched in 2008 and acquired by Microsoft in 2012, is probably that it is designed ...
  3 days ago

• Weekly Science Picks

  
  Australian Science — Authority: 135
  Greetings one and all, and a very happy science Sunday to you! This week’s generally been quite interesting. We’ve had good news, bad news, a little heated discussion… All the kind of things which keep the science community vibrant and interesting. As for specifically what that news was, well. Please do read ...
  5 days ago

• Soil: an under-appreciated dynamic consortium of communities. Part 1?

  
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  Quick fact: the amount of data generated by analyzing the genetic make-up of 1 gram of soil would surpass the total for the entire Human Genome Project. That is because a gram of soil may contain between 2,000 and 18,000 different genomes comprised within roughly 40,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 bacteria cells (1) and (2). ...
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• Collecting and displaying healthcare ICT — are medical museums ready for the future?

  
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  Here are some topics that medical museums need to get involved with if we want to engage with contemporary healthcare: * Ambient Assisted Living for Elderly Care * Ambient Intelligence and Intelligent Service Systems * Analysis and Evaluation of Healthcare Systems * Clinical Data and Knowledge Management * Cloud ...
  2 weeks ago

• Scientific writing seminar

  
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  This is a talk I gave to undergraduate research students at the STEM Center earlier today. Come for the tips, stay for the bad jokes! Additional, 11 May 2013 : Now you can follow along with the slides on Slideshare!
  2 weeks ago

• harnessing frames of mind: non-linguistic techniques for detecting contrast in olfaction

  
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  In the previous post , with the help of an awesome Radio Lab episode , I explored the idea that you cannot smell the color blue until you have a word for it. Language it turns out might be integral for contrast detection.  What the Radio Lab program explored with color I tried to re-apply to aroma particularly with ...
  2 weeks ago

• All You Need is a Minute to Learn Physics

  
  Australian Science — Authority: 135
  Really. Well okay, maybe a little more than a minute. Three minutes tops. Well okay, maybe five minutes and throw in an appreciation of watching cartoons and Youtube videos. That’s it. I was skeptical when I stumbled on Henry Reich’s MinutePhysics Youtube channel  one night. How could anyone explain light, ...
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• Tuesday Crustie: Micrarium

  
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  These copepods are preserved specimens on display in a museum. Now, you might think, “Those are small, so how would you display them?” Like this : It’s an amazing display at the University College London. They dubbed it the “micrarium,” which is an excellent word. Lovely idea and lovely display. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Take credit for your work

  
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  If science is the best way to reduce subjectivity when asking a question of how something works, then an inherently essential aspect of this is getting your message across to as many people and as clearly as possible. And as CB readers will know, I’m all about ‘getting the message out’. As such, when asked by a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Challenge: research in the 1000 most common words

  
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  Here is a list of the 1000 most commonly used words in the English language. Check it out. See if you can explain your research in these 1000 words. My try: I study how things that are different between men and women change over time. Please add the description of your research in the comments!
  2 weeks ago

• Double Productivity Without Knowing It

  
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  Reblogged from Level Up Health:   All is a matter of perspective. As I was going about my rainy drizzly day, I realise my slacking off yesterday was much noticeable today. My lack of eating and sleep was really felt this training session. It is never a good thing to go to bed hungry, if [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Performance Paradigm

  
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  Movement is quite simple and from that wonderful simplicitycomes the complexity of sports skill and performance. Twenty-five years ago inan attempt to better explain movement and how we should effectively trainmovement I came up with this simple diag ram I call the Performance Paradigm. Itwas somewhat like what ...
  3 weeks ago

• New and Improved B.inky the bacterium: Now in 3D

  
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  UPDATE: animated gif coming soon… Way back (March 6th) I introduced a character to help introduce children to the world of microbiology that was affectionately named Bacteroid inkensis or B.inky for short. Well, since being nudged by a colleague earlier in the week, I have been improving B.inky’s appearance. Here ...
  3 weeks ago

• Turning the Sky Blue and Turning on Contrast Detection in Olfaction with Language

  
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  The sky isn’t blue until it is .  If you didn’t already catch this show on WNYC’s Radio Lab I’d start there. The hosts along side Guy Deutscher, author of Through the Language Glass ,   look at Homer’s the Iliad and Odyssey and investigate why the color blue is never mentioned. They even take it back to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Some exciting news!

  
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  I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll soon be writing for a second blog in addition to Inspiring Science !  The Scitable blog network , part of Nature Education’s online collaborative learning space, will be relaunching sometime soon and I’ve been asked to be one of the authors of the new blog about ...
  4 weeks ago

• The challenges for science journalism in the UK

  
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  From Progress in Physical Geography A science journalist is a specialist whose role is, broadly, to report scientific developments to a wider audience than that reached by the academic journals. The world of journalism is changing rapidly as online media grow, squeezing resources and putting pressure on ...
  4 weeks ago

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