Grant Jacobs • Sep 25, 2011 •
Yup, it’s time I cleaned up my browser tabs and offered my readers pointers to a small selection of the interesting bits’n’bobs hiding there. Reading the blurb for an up-coming lecture at the University of Otago, The 1918 influenza epidemic in Polynesia, I read ’The 1918 Influenza pandemic was one of the great mortality events in … Read More
Ken Perrott • Feb 01, 2011 •
I have noticed lately that there are usually quite a few click throughs from this monthly NZ blog ranking post to individual blogs. Some people are obviously using it as a resource to browse NZ blogs. Another reason to get … Continue reading → … Read More
Ken Perrott • Nov 19, 2010 •
Oh my! It’s that time of year again, when the folks over at WordPress.org start putting the finishing touches on the next version of WordPress (in this case, version 3.1), and the lucky users of WordPress.com are automatically included in the beta testing, giving you all access to new features about a month before they [...] … Read More
David Winter • Aug 18, 2010 •
I'm going to be spending the rest of my week keeping up with my real work. Neither science nor the internet have chosen to rest while I catch up with that, so there are lots of interesting things happening that you should be reading about. ***First, th... Read More
Grant Jacobs • Jul 27, 2010 •
I have too many interesting articles to read and too little time to write… here a few articles I can recommend, and a milestone. Of sorts. [caption id="attachment_3255" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Holt milestone (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)"][/caption] It’s officially sex week over at the Loom. Given … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Jun 03, 2010 •
This is a back story to my early article To link or not to link: is that the question? I put this aside at the time, as I didn’t want to burden sciblogs with too much on the same rather niche topic. We’re a modest-sized collective, not something as large as scienceblogs where a theme amongst a … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Jun 01, 2010 •
For some, anyway. With apologies to Shakespeare:* To link, or not to link: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to not know The slings and arrows of the source, Or to take arms against a sea of urban myth, And by linking end them? ... An on-going debate amongst … Read More