New Peer-Reviewed Paper Demolishes Fallacious Objection: “Aren’t There Vast Eons of Time for Evolution?”
(evolutionnews.org): When debating intelligent design (ID), there are countless times we have heard the old objection, ‘But aren’t there millions of years for Darwinian evolution?’ Perhaps there are, but that doesn’t mean the Darwinian mechanism has sufficient opportunities to produce the observed complexity found in life. Darwin put forward a… Read More
More and more e-books being stored in the ‘cloud’
(philly.com): The transition from print to electronic books, for many readers, is inevitable. Will those virtual libraries live on a personal device, such as Amazon's Kindle? Or will people choose to store their e-books on the Internet "cloud," on networks accessible through any computer or smart-phone? And how portable will… Read More
New version 2.3.1 Public Knowledge Project’ Open Journal Systems publishing software
(pkp.sfu.ca): OJS 2.3.0 introduced a major rewrite of core aspects of PKP applications that reconciles common code (e.g. shared between OJS, OCS, and the Harvester) into a separate library called the PKP Web Application Library (WAL). Many parts of the system have been changed in a way that is transparent… Read More
The Value of Information in Spatial Decision Making
(springerlink.com): Experiments performed over spatially correlated domains, if poorly chosen, may not be worth their cost of acquisition. In this paper, we integrate the decision-analytic notion of value of information with spatial statistical models. We formulate methods to evaluate monetary values associated with experiments performed in the spatial decision making… Read More
Is Publishing Becoming a Minimum Wage Trade?
(johnaustinblog.blogspot.com): Many publishers are hurting to the point of hemorrhaging due to the (probably long over-due) upheaval in their industry caused by new technological advances affecting all logistics, suppliers, readers desires and, in the process, birthing new attitudes and procedures. And NOT lost in all of this is the major… Read More
Information-Seeking Behavior in the Digital Age: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of Academic Researchers
(acrl.org): This article focuses on how electronic information resources influence the information-seeking process in the social sciences and humanities, examines the information-seeking behavior of scholars in these fields, and extends the David Ellis model of information-seeking behavior for social scientists, which includes six characteristics: starting, chaining, browsing, differentiating, monitoring, and… Read More
E-books spark battle inside the publishing industry
(washingtonpost.com): The evolution of publishing from print to digital has caused a schism in the reading world. There are now two constituencies: readers (and writers) on the one hand, and the publishing world on the other. And they don't want to hear each other. Readers want books that are plentiful… Read More
The Climategate scandal – Who’s in Denial Now?
(aei.org): The Climategate scandal, like others in biology and medicine erodes the credibility of both the scientists involved, and the institution of scientific research. It has become evident that there is a lot of rot going on in the body of science, and too little effort made to fix it.… Read More
The Best of Next Generation Science 2009 – The Year in Review
(nextgenerationscience.com): Next Generation Science presents the most popular articles for 2009. The most popular articles for 2009 have been calculated using two measures, either by the highest number of page views for the year (shown in blue) or by the average number of page views (shown in white and calculated… Read More
The EBook Revolution Cometh
(newuniversity.org): It is easy to understand why eBooks are going to change the way content is produced, delivered and used. eBook readers are comparable in size with the printed book, but can store more than 1000 books (much more than the typical book collection of a single family). eBooks are… Read More
