Lots of great stuff today – here is a sampling:
In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification and In Defense of Links, Part Two: Money changes everything
What is Twitter and Why Scientists Need To Use It.
A university for citizen scientists
If the Cost of Publishing a Scientific Journal Article is $10,000, Who Pays for Open-Access?
Strategies for Promoting Open-Access Publishing
I wouldn’t have caught the JSTOR issues
Going Backwards: Time Reversal Reconsidered
Massive eggs were the most fragile of any bird
Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?
Wolves Are Smart, but Dogs Look Back
3D Look Inside Whales’ Heads Shows Negative Effects of Marine Noise
How much data should PIs check?
Orange stripey dinosaurs? Fossil feathers reveal their secret colors
Faith in science is not enough – people deserve proof
Declining Infrastructure, Declining Civilization
Maps: How Mankind Remade Nature
Chapel Hill Museum sells items to cover debt
Extra! Extra! Can art save newspapers?
Glenn Beck’s rally was large, vague, moist, and undirected—the Waterworld of white self-pity.
Well, Now We Know What The Wikileaks Sex Scandal Is Really All About…