Monthly Archives: October 2011

Wikis, Q&As and Cookbooks

By Martin Fenner
Posted: October 31, 2011
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Halloween Highlight 2011: An Author Spotlight with David Hughes and Harry Evans

By Jen Laloup
Posted: October 31, 2011
Category: Author Spotlight, Featured Image, Fun, Images | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

A Colorful Little Tale of Halloween Poison

By Deborah Blum
Posted: October 31, 2011
Category: consumer protection, Speakeasy Science | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

How to Use PLoS’s Advanced Search Function

By Michael Morris
Posted: October 31, 2011
Category: General | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Ode to a ghostly tune: the science and musicality of glass

By Hannah Krakauer
Posted: October 31, 2011
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For frack’s sake, stop calling natural gas “green”

By Stephen Craft
Posted: October 30, 2011
Category: Climatology, Energy policy, Fracking | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

SciWriteLabs #4, in which Alistair Dove argues that bad science inevitably gets “overwritten” by good science…and I point out on all the harm that can happen in the meantime

By Seth Mnookin
Posted: October 30, 2011
Category: Media, Science, SciWriteLabs | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Prime number

By mangrist
Posted: October 28, 2011
Category: song sung blue | Leave a comment

New Twitter Functionality on PLoS ONE

By Jen Laloup
Posted: October 28, 2011
Category: article-level metrics, Functionality, Service improvements, Social media | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

What Kind of Buddhist was Steve Jobs, Really?

By Steve Silberman
Posted: October 28, 2011
Category: Art, Books, Buddhism, cancer, Culture, History, Media, Mindfulness, Personal computing, Psychedelics, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment