Author: victorhenning
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Things that gave me pause this week II
With a lot less words than the other thing that gave me pause this week. Via Smashing Magazine via FFFfound. Update: Since I’ve been asked, I do occasionally buy perfume and I like ice cream. And I probably wouldn’t turn down an ocean cruise.
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Things that gave me pause this week I
Last Friday at the airport, when I was queuing to board the plane, the man in front of me was reading the Economist. I couldn’t help but notice a double-page ad placed by the Templeton Foundation. The ad featured a set of interesting essays by a number of prominent scientists, philosophers and theologists on the…
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This week's roundup
Busy week again at Mendeley HQ, so just a few short notes of what we’ve been up to. Besides Mike joining us – and of course ongoing development work on both Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web – we’re still on the lookout for a new office. We did see a few interesting ones, such as…
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Mike Arthur joins Team Mendeley
This week marks the end of Jan, Paul and me spending our days at Mendeley HQ all by our lonesome. Beause this week, dear readers, we are joined by our new software engineer Mike Arthur whom we managed to snatch from the claws of British Telecom! That’s him there, on the right. Mike has signed…
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Edo anatomy
I recently wrote about how some of the statistics I designed for Mendeley Web vaguely reminded me of Edo period woodprints. So when I stumbled across these captivating Kaibo Zonshinzu anatomy scrolls painted in 1819, I wanted to share them with you. I was fascinated by Pink Tentacle’s observation that “Unlike European anatomical drawings of…
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