March 29, 2006

It was Romany I chose

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Heard a great story from the BBC (via the World's Technology Podcast , which is a great review of tech issues around the world) about ef...
March 28, 2006

About the New Orleans Paper

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I heard a NewsHour podcast this morning about how the New Orleans Times Picayune is covering New Orleans after Katrina. This is what the Ne...
March 26, 2006

Fiction Science

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Just finished a fabulous novel ( Intuition , by Allegra Goodman) about the scientific process and the world of postdocs working in labs. It...

Favorite Podcasts

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I'll be linking to some of my favorite podcasts over on the left navigation bar of this blog. I listen to lots o' podcasts on my 2...

"Hi, Pat, your question is interesting"

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Carol Tenopir’s March 1 column in Library Journal describes research by Marie Radford Lynn Silipigni Connaway into the social dynamics ...

"Are search engines making students dumber?"

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From today’s New York Times comes an editorial about search engines and students’ intellectual abilities over the past several years. Hmm...
March 24, 2006

Talks with Whales

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Research News from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute: Warbling Whales Speak a Language All Their Own “Researchers have now mathematicall...
March 22, 2006

Another Great Vowel Shift?

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NPR 's Robert Siegel interviews William Labov about his book Atlas of North American English Phonetics, Phonology and Sound Change . Ha...

Food for Thought

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My favorite psychology podcast, Australia's ABC Radio National's All in the Mind recently reviewed some research which suggests tha...
March 19, 2006

Crossing the Chasm: from Cutting Edge to Practical Application

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[shameless self-promotion] I’m going to speak at the Capital District Library Council in Albany about practical applications of emerging te...