Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

November 13, 2008 11

Ending Adolescence earlier and the obsession with productivity

By in Resources, Time management

Image via Wikipedia BusinessWeek has an interesting post on how adolescence could be a failed social experiment and we should let 13-yo kids take adult-level responsibilities. While the idea is good, I still find it troublesome in a society that works more than ever and has less spare time even when technology should provide abundance [...]

August 12, 2008 7

Why productivity fades with age: The crime–genius connection

By in Resources, Writing

I found interesting this paper by Kanazawa (2004). It proposes that  ‘both crime and genius stem from men’s evolved psychological mechanism which compels them to be highly competitive in early adulthood but ‘‘turns off’’ when they get married and have children.’ He thinks testosterone may be one reason for productivity. This part is particularly moving: [...]

July 27, 2008 16

Three tips to increase your chances of pleasing a journal editor

By in Announcements, Reference management, Resources

Recently I met with someone who is the editor for one of the top journals in my field. We discussed what would increase your chances of pleasing a journal editor. He gave me three clear pointers that I thought would be interesting to the readership here. But, I also think I’m going to try a [...]

June 13, 2008 3

Google’s Palimpsest project: Open-Source Science Data

By in Resources, Social Media, Web 2.0

Google will host large scientific datasets at http://research.google.com. That is, of you have a dataset that is requested constantly, now you can ‘open-source’ it and let google take the server load. Wired has this covered. For those not seeing the point in having open, portable data, this presentation (Making Massive Datasets Universally Accessible and Useful) [...]

June 4, 2008 0

A lucid view into 21st-century publishing: who are you writing for?

By in Book reviews, Resources, Social Media

Sara Lloyd has published a manifesto on the way knowledge is distributed today. In an ‘always on’ world in which everything is increasingly digital, where content is increasingly fragmented and ‘bite-sized’, where ‘prosumers’ merge the traditionally disparate roles of producer and consumer, where search replaces the library and where multimedia mash-ups -not text- holds the [...]