Bibliometry: Citescape is an interesting piece of software.
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Space is not, or will not, just be the domain of states and their military-industrial-scientific complexes; it will also be conquered by private firms. That might even be desirable, that’s what people like Martin Rees have been arguing for quite some time now.
But is it happening? Perhaps.
Masten Space Systems, Inc. will send a kilogram of something into suborbital, microgravity flight for $250. Here’s an animated movie of their idea.
[via New Scientist and Vetenskapsnytt.]
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Max Planck Research Network Seminar “History of Scientific Objects”, Copenhagen 8-12 May: still a few vacant seats at this interesting seminar at the Medical Museion.
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Found a draft paper of a chapter for the upcoming new STS Handbook that looks interesting: Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent, “The Commercialization of Science, and the Response of STS”.
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The Research Policy Institute is 40 this year. Just heard that Stuart Blume and Dominique Pestre had been confirmed as speakers for our conference in September.
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Google scholar is about to add some kind of ranking system, on the lines of Pagerank.
This strikes me as a good thing but I wish they would share that ranking algorithm. I recognize that they are probably looking to patent it (ugh!), but there’s a tradition in the academic community about being a bit transparent about such things
Alex Halavais writes. How very true; science ought to be about openness, many times it is not.
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Science has a special issue on bird flu. Now: analyze.
(An idea for an activity for our introductory STS course. We’ll see.)
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I’m moving this blog to WordPress. Hopefully you will see it in its new and shiny wordpressy splendour here in a while, but one never knows. If it is successful, you will need to enter new rss feeds for your subscriptions …
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Imaginary magnitude is now placed where it belongs - in Lund - on bloggkartan.se
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It’s been a long time since I wrote here; instead I’ve been blogging over at my Swedish blog.
I feel it is time to resume at least sporadic blogging in English.
Oh, and I’ve switched from Movable Type to WordPress. Works like a charm.
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