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Royal Society Journal Archives
This is pretty cool. The Royal Society has opened up its journal archive and made over 60,000 journal papers accessible, free, on-line. With just a quick search string, a user can be reading a
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Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Florence, Italy
Our reservation at the Accademia was for 11:45am, that left plenty of time, before that, to visit the science museum (6.5 euros), home not only to Galileo’s telescopes, but also to his finger (relic
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Dinosaur feathers
This is pretty fascinating. A team of paleontologists at the University of Alberta have a paper in the latest issue of Science concerning their study of amber containing feathers from dinosaurs. Besides being excellent
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Does doodling help or hinder learning?
Mindshift has an interesting article about doodling. The article is in reference to a paper published in Science called Drawing to Learn in Science by Shaaron Ainsworth, Vaughan Prain, and Russell Tytler. The
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Review: Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem
This is an absolutely fascinating book. It’s written by a doctor named Sharon Moalem. The book discusses the relationships between disease and evolution. Most people are familiar with the example of sickel cell anemia.
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