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Authorship Markup And Web Search - Value For Science 2.0?

Authorship Markup And Web Search - Value For Science 2.0?

Jun 07 2011 | comment(s)

Othar Hansson, Software Engineer at Google.com writes:

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Today we're beginning to support authorship markup -- a way to connect authors with their content on the web. We are experimenting with using this data to help people find content from great authors in our search results.
Who Annoys You More, Climate Change Deniers Or Fetishists?

Who Annoys You More, Climate Change Deniers Or Fetishists?

Jun 06 2011 | comment(s)

Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Glover jokes it is time to put a special mark on global warming skeptics - I assume he is joking, since he recognizes that is a little too Nazi creepy even for a progressive.

But he doesn't like their intransigence and outright denial.   He doesn't like the climate change fetishists all that much other - the ones hoping the world will be ruined so they can be right.  
Not that the other side isn't frustrating. There's a type of green zealot who appears to relish climate change. Every rise in sea levels is noted excitedly. Every cyclone is applauded and claimed as a noisy, deadly witness for their side.
Calories Are Up But Sugar Calories Are Down - What's Ailing Cereal

Calories Are Up But Sugar Calories Are Down - What's Ailing Cereal

Jun 03 2011 | comment(s)

Americans spend what I consider a long time getting breakfast, though nutritionists say it is "the most important meal of the day" - 13 minutes a day, it turns out.   I say a long time because mine takes 30 seconds; during the week I eat Raisin Brain or some wheat things or whatever else my wife purchased that doesn't have hearts, moons or diamonds.(1)
Library Of Congress - Government Gets It Right

Library Of Congress - Government Gets It Right

Jun 03 2011 | comment(s)

Government work is usually a thankless job - yes, thanks to guaranteed pay raises and a union that can shut down the government, government employees make more money than the private sector and have better benefits and retirement, so it is not exactly thankless, but there are few instances where we can say 'government gets it right'.

"It's Sad But True That Most Discoveries In Biology Are Made By Physicists" - Freeman Dyson

Jun 02 2011 | comment(s)

What's ailing biology?

Wilson da Silva, Editor-in-Chief of COSMOS, a science publication in Australia, was attending a lecture by Freeman Dyson lecture at the Perimeter Institute in Canada when Dyson said, "It's sad but true that most discoveries in biology are made by physicists."
Junk Science - Atheists Have Better Sex Lives

Junk Science - Atheists Have Better Sex Lives

Jun 01 2011 | comment(s)

Just after Satoshi Kanazawa once again trashed the reputation of fringe field evolutionary psychology, independent psychology researcher Darrel Ray wants to tank clinical psychology.

His method for its destruction?  An online survey of people with a 'religious background' who left religion, of course.   14,500 people responded and, not surprisingly, the results skewed toward exactly what an atheist-who-was-raised-fundamentalist-Christian wants them to skew toward; that atheists have better sex lives.