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Getting feedback on our work
We had a very distinguished visitor at our office yesterday! Prof. Bill Fitzgerald, who heads the Signal Processing Lab at the University of Cambridge, dropped by. For me, that’s one of the nicest things about working for Mendeley – we get to meet brilliant people who do research on the most fascinating of topics. Bill,…
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From cold fusion to cold beer
I just visited the Scientific American to see whether they had picked up this Physicsworld story on an allegedly successful cold fusion experiment in Japan. It seems they didn’t, and so my premature hopes of seeing the world’s energy problems solved before I left the office today took a little dent. Instead, SciAm’s front page…
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NYT: Einstein Letter on God Sells for $404,000
Just a quick follow-up to my thoughts earlier this week – the New York Times’ Dennis Overbye reports that From the grave, Albert Einstein poured gasoline on the culture wars between science and religion this week. Mr. Overbye must have missed his colleague’s Op-Ed stating that these culture wars were obsolete? I kid, I kid.…
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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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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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