The submission deadline for the Open Laboratory 2008 science bloggin anthology has passed, and Bora has posted a complete list of the submissions. Five hundred (or so) of the best science blog posts of the last year. As Laurent described it, “it’s like a Carnival”. It’s also a good place to go and update your [...]
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As a graduate student I came across the word “speciose”. It had an alluring sound to it that was lacking in its more pedestrian synonym “species-rich”. Equally appealing, I suspect, was the fact that it supplied a formal-sounding alternative that was less accessible to the average person. (If you’re lucky, you outgrow that affectation and [...]
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