Some good, thought-provoking reads about the Web, social networking, publishing and blogging:
Aggregating scientific activity
Social Networks at Work Promise Bottom-Line Results
Would limiting career publication number revamp scientific publishing?
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Benjamin Zycher, fellow at the Manhattan Institute, questions of the wisdom of allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with drug companies.
via Ezra Klein comes this bottom-line chart from the Center for Economic and Policy Research:
There's an article in today's Inside Higher Ed on the building momentum in college chemistry courses to make the labs greener -- that is, to reduce the amount of hazardous materials necessary in the required student experime
Some
call it "hillbilly heroin," something I could not bring myself to say
aloud. But that illustrates the strong feelings that people
have about the drug,