EX: Turning off Depression: Profile of a Neurologist; A Revealing Reflection: Mirror Neurons Talk, Walk, and Culture; Trial and Error: How Scientific-Journal Peer Review Allows Fraud, Error, and a Bit of Hubris...
"In some extreme cases, this theory that culture shapes the way science is conducted is right. In the mid-19th century, physicians discovered that slaves suffered from drapetomania, or the uncontrollable urge to escape from slavery..."
the Wuppertal Institute focuses its work on application-oriented sustainability research, addressing the major challenges related to sustainable development, such as climate change or resource shortages.
DataCite is focused on improving the scholarly infrastructure around datasets. There will be a set of activities around establishing and sharing best-practices, identifying and solving some of the unique issues that arise with datasets.
xd3d is a simple scientific visualization tool designed to be easy to learn. It can plot 2d and 3d meshes, with shadowing, contour plots, vector fields, iso-contour (3d), as well as 3d surfaces z=f(x,y) defined by an algebraic expression or a cloud of points. It generates high quality vector PostScript files for scientific publications and still or animated bitmap images. It includes the graph plotter xgraphic.