Author: charlie

Mary J. Ray, oldest person in the US, dead at 114 – The Boston Globe "Ray was just a few days younger than the oldest person in the world, Kama Chine...

Do scientists really need a PhD? : Article : Nature "Young scientists at a Chinese genomics institute are foregoing conventional postgraduate training for ...

BenchFly – Science Videos, Laboratory Techniques and Current Protocols Hm. One more thing that proves I'm a thinker and not a do-er. I was thinking h...

Navigating the maze of sugar and artificial sweeteners [via @skinny] (tags: biology molecularist science sugar nutrition chemistry) Pew: Portals Most Commonly U...

Continuous publishing through Live Editions – Tools of Change for Publishing "The Live Edition is presently available as an Ebook (PDF, Mobi, and ePu...

Meyer and Evanovich Turn Stories Into Graphic Novels – NYTimes.com "Look! Up in the sky! It’s a prose author moving a ton of graphic novels!" (t...

Best Hospital Facebook Pages – Children’s Hospitals "Children’s Hospital Boston has created a Facebook page by which all other hospital pages should be jud...

How many Kindles have really been sold? (And other interesting tidbits about ebooks) Good analysis [via @atmaspere] (tags: marketing data ebook kindle ebooks am...

Evolution F*cked Your Shit Up: The World’s 50 Freakiest Animals (tags: science biology funny humor photos evolution list bizarre weird strange awesome animals i...

A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. – By Vaughan Bell – Slate Magazine Just brilliant. "The writer Dougl...