I had problems with my handwriting since elementary schools, or at least my teachers had continuous problems with it. Even during my university years I was asked sometimes to read out loud my essays, … more →
Pimm - Partial immortalizationshwu wrote 5 days ago: I’m not sure what the statute of limitations is on foo bar write-ups but I distinctly feel lat … more →
Jim H wrote 6 days ago: I’ve been trying to find the time to throw up a post about the second day of SciBarCamp, so he … more →
Duncan wrote 6 days ago: The fourth International Science Foo Camp (scifoo) 2009 has just concluded. Here are some very brief … more →
Jim H wrote 1 week ago: A quick morning post about Day 1 at SciBarCamp Palo Alto. After an uneventful flight across the cont … more →
Bertalan Meskó wrote 1 week ago: In the past few days, I’ve been covering the International Congress of Gerontology in Paris, b … more →
Duncan wrote 1 week ago: So, I’m going to San Francisco and on to the Googleplex in the heart of Silly Valley, Californ … more →
Jim H wrote 1 week ago: In case you haven’t noticed, my blogging has lately been dragged into the blackhole that has b … more →
ouroboros wrote 2 months ago: Just a reminder: Registration for SciBarCamp Palo Alto went live today. We’re limited to 75 pe … more →
Duncan wrote 3 months ago: Via the Official Google Research Blog at the University of Google, Alon Halevy, Peter Norvig and Fer … more →
ouroboros wrote 3 months ago: Last year I enjoyed attending two great “unconferences”, Scifoo andBioBarCamp. Although … more →
Duncan wrote 3 months ago: In my inbox this morning, an intriguing email from Timo Hannay, Tim O’Reilly and Chris DiBona: … more →
Jim H wrote 3 months ago: At SciFoo at Google in August ‘08 I met Paul Stamets of Fungi.com. One of the many give a way … more →
shwu wrote 5 months ago: It’s already all over the intertubes by now, but I figured I should post it myself as well jus … more →
Jim H wrote 6 months ago: I wanted to make the first post of the year not so much of a retrospective on 2008 as “forward … more →
Jim H wrote 7 months ago: Be big or stay home, as we used to say in High School. As I watched “Meet the Press” thi … more →
Jim H wrote 7 months ago: It’s funny, but I was searching Nature for my blog last week. A few months ago, I noticed tha … more →
Duncan wrote 8 months ago: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web We started writing this paper [1] over a year ago, s … more →
Jim H wrote 9 months ago: Laura Rauch for The New York Times George Church leads the Personal Genome Project and is one of … more →
Jim H wrote 9 months ago: I came across John Gilbey’s write up of SciFoo in a local periodical. John was one of the fir … more →