Author: victorhenning
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This one is for you nerds
This morning in perpetually sunny London, as I walked from my flat to the Warwick Avenue tube station, I noticed something that almost made me tremble in awe and excitement. I could barely hold my iPhone still to take a picture. I’m living around the corner from the house where Alan Turing was born! ALAN…
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This is how we look while working for Mendeley…
…metaphorically speaking: My girlfriend Irina sent me this delightful video a few days ago, and I remain mesmerized. I’ve watched it several times now – it never fails to crack me up (my favourite part starts after exactly one minute!). You may rightfully wonder what this performance could have in common with life at our…
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Designing statistics
So I’m currently designing the visual representation of the statistics you’ll be able to access on our website. For example, this is one of the graphs which will let you track how the readership of your own publications is evolving: When I was finished and took another look at it, the color and the shape…
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Neuroplasticity and meditation might save my co-founders
Occasionally, our blog will highlight research which we personally find interesting. What I enjoyed most about my Ph.D. dissertation, and research in general, was that it enabled me to spend a lot of time just reading stuff that I found utterly fascinating.
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How our name evolved from B-movie monster to Mendeley
You can probably imagine that coming up with a name for a start-up is hard. It should be memorable, unique, and as short as possible. It should also sound good, possibly have a connection to what you’re doing, and (that’s the trickiest part) the .com- and .net-domain should still be available. When we got started…
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