On November 18, 1985, the first Calvin and Hobbes daily comic strip is published, the humorous antics of Calvin, a precocious and adventurous six-year-old boy, and Hobbes, his sardonic stuffed tiger by American cartoonist Bill Watterson. Ok, you might ask, what does a daily cartoon comic strip have to do with the history of science and technology. Well, we have included Calvin and Hobbes into our daily blog for several reasons: First, the reference for John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes and their philosophic differences that have been expressed in a wonderful and very peculiar way. Second, some of the cartoons do really relate to science and technology - let's not forget about transmogrification -, and third, there is of course also a personal story that I'm going to tell you today...
Last week's post (The truth about vaccinations: Your physician knows more than the University of Google) sparked a very lively discussion, with comments from several people trying to persuade me (and the other readers) that their paper disproved everything that I'd been saying. While I encourage you to go read the comments and contribute your…
Julie Letierce, Alexandre Passant, John Breslin, Stefan Decker. In Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line (15 March 2010). According to a survey we recently conducted, Twitter wasranked in the top three services used by Semantic Web re-searchers to spread information. In order to understandhow Twitter is practically used for spreading scientific mes-sages, we captured tweets containing the official hashtags ofthree conferences and studied (1) the type of content thatresearchers are more likely to tweet, (2) how they do it, andfinally (3) if their tweets can reach other communities — inaddition to their own. In addition, we also conducted someinterviews to complete our understanding of researchers’ mo-tivation to use Twitter during conferences. research science social_networks twitter
A recent idea from Slovenia to use the crowd for summing up papers the way that everybody understands it.
gist: From Old French gist, from the verb gesir (“to lie down”), from Latin iaceō. The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter (Def. @ Wiktionary).