Mendeley, the future of science publishing
I was at Next09 this week, giving a talk with Rudy de Waele on "Mobile 2.0". Next09 was a good conference, a mix of talks in German and English, cover...
Category: Science
Ginkgoo comes out with BioBrick Kit with New England Biolabs
Gotta say that it's really good when you can start buying kits that make things easier and push down the threshold for someone to do something (especially ...
Pause for station identification
Wow. I haven't done one of these in a long time. Molecules on the mindMy name is Charlie Schick, I am currently Editor-in-Chief of Nokia Conversations (but...
Funky bioelectronics
I'd been meaning to look into this more ever since reading about it in the quarterly tech review in The Economist, back in Dec. There are folks who are cre...
Hackspaces on the mind
I don't know why, but ever since returning from SXSW09 I've been wondering about hackspaces. As you might know, hackspaces are like a nerd collective,...
Social networking and health – notes from SXSW
I was at SXSW last week and sat in on some seminars and conversations that I found particularly intersting. One session was a "conversation," held in ...
Changing names
As you can tell, I've been writing more and more about science, biochemistry, medicine, and the like. I've moved most of my mobile industry writing to...
MIT makes all its new scholarly research publications Open Access
This is amazing. I know folks battling for Open Access in science for over 10 years. Even with heavy hitters, such as Harold Varmus, PubMed, and others supporti...
Itching to mutagenize
I’ve been thinking back to my bio-tinkering days. I used to work on protease inhibitors called serpins, serine protease inhibitors. Serine proteases are e...
It’s the filtering, stupid
I’ve been struggling for a while around a very big concept – how to bring scientific publishing to the modern web world of social, collaborative cre...