Science and SciFi
Newsblog: Readers choice of 2013 : Nature News & Comment. Keeping up with the well-established tradition of year-end lists, here is one from Nature’s blog: 1. Experiments reveal that crabs and lobsters feel pain 7… Read More »Nature’s Readers choice of 2013
Once again Google puts out a doodle worth mentioning. This time they celebrate the 107th birthday anniversary of computer scientist Grace Hopper. In case you do not know who Hopper is, well, let me… Read More »Grace Hopper Doodle
I had the chance to attend the latest LondonR meeting last week. It was a good interesting gathering and I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was well attended by a variety of like-minded… Read More »LondonR – Shiny
Born on December 3rd 180 years ago, Carlos Juan Finlay is the man who came up with the theory that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes. Glad to see that a Google Doodle can help… Read More »Google Doodle – Carlos Juan Finlay
It seems there are a number of things to commemorate around this time. Not only the 10 years of England winning the rugby world cup but also 50 years of Dr Who. I watched the… Read More »Dr Who – 50th Anniversary Doodle
I have just updated a previous post with some of the UUIDs for using some plugins with Mail.app. The correct strings for Mail 7.0 in Mavericks are: <string>0941BB9F-231F-452D-A26F-47A43863C991</string> <string>04D6EC0A-52FF-4BBE-9896-C0B5FB851BBA</string> For instructions on what to do… Read More »Disabled bundles for Mail in Mavericks
In various posts in the past, I have given some tips using the Terminal and some comments have arrived about how complicated they may seem. Nonetheless, I still think that the flexibility offered by the… Read More »Command Line: a few tips
I had the chance to go to the premier of Gravity during the London Film Festival last Thursday. I was not expecting the red carpet treatment and the after-screening party, but hey… who am I… Read More »Gravity
This is a re-blog of “What Science’s “Sting Operation” Reveals” by Kausik Datta in Scilogs. What Science’s “Sting Operation” Reveals: Open Access Fiasco or Peer Review Hellhole? 4 October 2013 by Kausik Datta, The science-associated blogosphere… Read More »What Science’s “Sting Operation” reveals – reblog
