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“The circadian rhythms generated by our internal biological clocks vary from individual to individual; most clocks run slightly longer than 24 hours, while some run slightly shorter.”
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Bruised. : i tell stories“I’m not usually one to step in and try and stop a fight, but there came a time — after one of the fighting men had knocked over a child on the subway and the other had inadvertently knocked off a young woman’s glasses”
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Why bother publishing the book? I can’t get my head around this one. Yale Press?
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“AMICAL is an international consortium of American-model, liberal arts institutions of higher learning. Our mission is to advance learning, teaching and research through the collaborative development of library and information services and curricular resources at member institutions. “
Author: Michael C. Habib
links for 2009-07-31
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Session announcement: Author identity – Science Online London Blog – August 22, 2009 — Royal Institution of Great Britain“Duncan Hull, Geoffrey Bilder, Michael Habib, Reynold Guida: ResearcherID, Contributor ID, Scopus Author ID, etc. help to connect your scientific record. How do these tools connect to your online identity, and how can OpenID and other tools be integrated? How can we build an online reputation and when should we worry about our privacy?”
links for 2009-07-23
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Project website for Vanish: “Vanish is a research system designed to give users control over the lifetime of personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. Specifically, all copies of Vanish encrypted data — even archived or cached copies — will become permanently unreadable at a specific time, without any action on the part of the user or any third party or centralized service.”
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Article on U. of Washington prototype that uses a peer-to-peer encryption technique that makes messages disappear over time.
links for 2009-07-22
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iBiblio is one of the founding members, from the press release: “Today, a broad cross-section of more than 70 companies, academic institutions, communities, related groups and individuals joined together to announce the formation of Open Source for America, an organization that will serve as a unified voice for the promotion of open source software in the U.S. Federal Government arena. To register or learn more about the coalition, visit www.opensourceforamerica.org.”
links for 2009-07-17
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“-> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click “no one.” Unless, of course, you want to be semifamous and have your picture used to push some garbage product or website without your knowledge.”
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Enhanced ScienceDirect Goes Live « Nextbio’s Blog“Remember my blog post NextBio Elsevier Partnership telling you that Elsevier was going to use NextBio technology to enhance ScienceDirect? Well, the updated version of ScienceDirect went live yesterday and now you can see the enhancements for yourself! “