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How to quadruple your productivity with an army of student interns - 6 views

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Potential lessons for out own trainee program?

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Official Google Blog: A digital renaissance: partnering with the Italian Ministry of Cu... - 1 views

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Working with the National Libraries of Florence and Rome, we’ll digitize up to a million out-of-copyright works.
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Slashdot Apple Story | Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed - 1 views

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The highlights: you can't disclose the agreement itself
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Francesco Biscani on 09 Mar 10

Juicy bits about the JesusPhone's developer program.

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BBC News - Q&A: Europa and Jupiter mission - 1 views

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Informative Q&A.

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Slashdot Technology Story | Using Classical Music As a Form of Social Control - 1 views

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A clockwork orange all over again.

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BBC News - Ice deposits found at Moon's pole - 0 views

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A radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft has identified thick deposits of water-ice near the Moon's north pole.
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Slashdot Science Story | Chilean Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day - 1 views

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Why Google makes it easy to leave Google - 2 views

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Dunno how effective this is, but hey, at least they are doing _something_ for interoperability.

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Commercial Spaceflight Federation - 2 views

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CSF Welcomes Historic NASA Commitment of $75 Million for Commercial Suborbital Flights, Payloads
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BBC News - Nasa rides 'bucking bronco' to Mars - 2 views

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Look at the video... are they really going to pull this off?

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5 Reasons You Should Be Scared of Apple | Cracked.com - 1 views

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Gigapixel-Dresden.de - Large Size Panoramas - 4 views

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The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes.
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Hot And Heavy Matter Runs A 4 Trillion Degree Fever - Science News - 1 views

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Saturday night fever.

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BBC News - Study hints at dark matter action - 0 views

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"We can't rule them out as being a signal but we can't conclude that they are a signal."
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Francesco Biscani on 16 Feb 10

Gotta love the scientific method :)

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BBC News - Space rock contains organic molecular feast - 2 views

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Slashdot Science Story | New Interactive Black Hole Simulation Published - 3 views

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Google chrome using Gentoo's Portage - 2 views

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Just a heads up for Dario :)

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If you're going to do good science, release the computer code too!!! - 3 views

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Les Hatton, an international expert in software testing resident in the Universities of Kent and Kingston, carried out an extensive analysis of several million lines of scientific code. He showed that the software had an unacceptably high level of detectable inconsistencies.
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Francesco Biscani on 10 Feb 10

My view is that the only proper way to do scientific communication is full transparency: methodologies, tests, codes, etc. Everything else should be unacceptable. This should hold both for publicly funded science (for which there is the additional moral requirement to give back to the public domain what was produced with taxpayers' money) and privately-funded science (where the need to turn a profit should be of lesser importance than the proper application of the scientifc method).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">My view is that the only proper way to do scientific communication is full transparency: methodologies, tests, codes, etc. Everything else should be unacceptable. This should hold both for publicly funded science (for which there is the additional moral requirement to give back to the public domain what was produced with taxpayers' money) and privately-funded science (where the need to turn a profit should be of lesser importance than the proper application of the scientifc method).</div>

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Official Google Blog: Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards - 0 views

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Today, we're announcing the first-ever round of Google Focused Research Awards — funding research in areas of study that are of key interest to Google as well as the research community. These awards, totaling $5.7 million, cover four areas: machine learning, the use of mobile phones as data collection devices for public health and environment monitoring, energy efficiency in computing, and privacy.
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Francesco Biscani on 02 Feb 10

Might be of some interest to Christos?

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