David B.

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David B. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 6:00 am
When did you last check your blog’s subscriber numbers? It’s been quite a while for me. But, this week, I decided to take a quick look at my Feedburner stats. Seems that Sciencetext, SciSc...
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Alchemical Anomalies

David B. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 7:00 am
In the current issue of The Alchemist we learn how to stick methane molecules to metals without breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds and how to make impossible carbene catalysts without the usual prerequisi...
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Alchemical Anomalies

David B. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 7:00 am
In the current issue of The Alchemist we learn how to stick methane molecules to metals without breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds and how to make impossible carbene catalysts without the usual prerequisi...
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Twitter science list categories

David B. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 2:45 am
The manually compiled Scientwists list of science people on Twitter grew from around 100 of my contacts in January 2009 to almost 700 members, who asked to join or who retweeted the link as of October...
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Twitter science list categories

David B. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 2:45 am
The manually compiled Scientwists list of science people on Twitter grew from around 100 of my contacts in January 2009 to almost 700 members, who asked to join or who retweeted the link as of October...
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On being a Facebook slut

David B. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 6:00 am
I’m a Facebook slut. I keep LinkedIn for parallel monogamous business connections but will friend almost anyone on Facebook. It’s all about reaching out, after all. I want as many friends ...
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My Whole Cell Twitter Interview

David B. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 7:00 am
Laura Bonetta wrote an excellent article for the science journal Cell recently in which she quoted various science types who use Twitter on the subject of whether or not scientists should be tweeting....
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My Whole Cell Twitter Interview

David B. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 7:00 am
Laura Bonetta wrote an excellent article for the science journal Cell recently in which she quoted various science types who use Twitter on the subject of whether or not scientists should be tweeting....
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List categories for Twitter scientists

David B. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 3:38 am
UPDATE – NOV 5: Still working through the almost 650 members of the list, but now up to the P’s. Pressure was on from lots of science tweeps for to categorise my scientwist list…so ...
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List categories for Twitter scientists

David B. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 3:38 am
UPDATE – NOV 5: Still working through the almost 650 members of the list, but now up to the P’s. Pressure was on from lots of science tweeps for to categorise my scientwist list…so ...
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Socializing online shopping

David B. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 12:05 pm
People rarely go shopping together online. Okay, occasionally I’ll show my wife that I can buy some item or other we need cheaper online than at the mall, but that’s usually just to save t...
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Scientists on Twitter

David B. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 8:03 am
... Tweepml.org to help automate bio and avatar updates, Twitter announced the release of its own lists system ... tweet about it). As such, I’ve been gradually adding the scientwists to my ow...
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Scientists on Twitter

David B. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 8:03 am
... Tweepml.org to help automate bio and avatar updates, Twitter announced the release of its own lists system ... tweet about it). As such, I’ve been gradually adding the scientwists to my ow...
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Food Chemistry News

David B. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 7:00 am
On the menu today, why red wine is a no-no when it comes to fishy cuisine, how chemists can help you improve your gravy, and a whole platter of food chemistry to tempt your taste buds: “Red win...
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Food Chemistry News

David B. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 7:00 am
On the menu today, why red wine is a no-no when it comes to fishy cuisine, how chemists can help you improve your gravy, and a whole platter of food chemistry to tempt your taste buds: “Red win...
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Cookies for Comments

David B. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 11:00 am
A few weeks ago, I heard about a new antispam plugin called Cookies for Comments. After a couple of months of testing, I confess that it’s the most impressive plugin for blocking spam on a Wordp...
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Don't be such a scientist!

David B. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 7:00 am
Don’t be such a scientist! It’s the kind of thing I’d expect my sister to say to my face if I’ve gone off on one of my lecture mode conversations about some great discovery, or...
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Don't be such a scientist!

David B. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 7:00 am
Don’t be such a scientist! It’s the kind of thing I’d expect my sister to say to my face if I’ve gone off on one of my lecture mode conversations about some great discovery, or...
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What's wrong with copyright?

David B. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 11:00 am
Without copyright protection creative types would not create. That, apparently, is one of the defenses put forward by the likes of the RIAA and the MPAA. These organizations chase after file sharers a...
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You knew that, right?

David B. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 11:00 am
Some time ago, the NYT’s David Pogue ran a feature with a bunch of tech tips that seemed obvious to him but that he was shocked to discover a lot of people didn’t actually know. Like Contr...
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A month with an electricity monitor

David B. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 8:00 am
Right, the kettle is on for a morning brew and apparently our household is using 3.07 kilowatts. That will include the chest freezer in the garage, the refrigerator in the kitchen, the electric kettle...
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A month with an electricity monitor

David B. posted an article on - Oct 22, 2009, 8:00 am
Right, the kettle is on for a morning brew and apparently our household is using 3.07 kilowatts. That will include the chest freezer in the garage, the refrigerator in the kitchen, the electric kettle...
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First Online Banking…then what?

David B. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 11:00 am
If the wife of FBI boss Robert Mueller has allegedly warned him not to use online banking because his incompetence on the computer could leave them open to online fraud, then is there any hope for pro...
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Breast Cancer, Plankton, Tellurides

David B. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 3:00 pm
My latest contributions to SpectroscopyNOW.com and my current Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com are now live: Sweetening breast cancer risk – Experimental and epidemiological evidence previously ...
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Breast Cancer, Plankton, Tellurides

David B. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 3:00 pm
My latest contributions to SpectroscopyNOW.com and my current Alchemist column on ChemWeb.com are now live: Sweetening breast cancer risk – Experimental and epidemiological evidence previously ...
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Blog Comments Fail Fixed

David B. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 11:00 am
Sometimes trying to improve something is doomed to fail. I wanted to give Sciencetext readers a better experience when reading posts and leaving comments, so I installed various plugins one after the ...
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DHL Trojan Spam

David B. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 11:00 am
Did you get an email with the following text recently, or something similar, claiming to be from DHL: Unfortunately we failed to deliver the postal package you have sent on the 11th of July in time b...
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Climate Change Action

David B. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 3:00 pm
It’s Blog Action Day 2009 and the subject this year is Climate Change. So, here are a few resources for readers seeking out climate information: IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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Climate Change Action

David B. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 3:00 pm
It’s Blog Action Day 2009 and the subject this year is Climate Change. So, here are a few resources for readers seeking out climate information: IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
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Who clicks on banner ads?

David B. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 3:00 pm
Hands up: who clicks through on banner ads and popups? That many of you, really? Interesting… You may be surprised to learn that banner ad click through rates are very low. That could be a bad ...
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Metal Bottle Tops and Landfill Mining

David B. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 7:00 am
Reduce, re-use, and recycle. Just one of the countless mantras of the twenty-first century that we are told will save the planet. Of course, my grandmother used to put it far more succinctly and in a ...
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Metal Bottle Tops and Landfill Mining

David B. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2009, 7:00 am
Reduce, re-use, and recycle. Just one of the countless mantras of the twenty-first century that we are told will save the planet. Of course, my grandmother used to put it far more succinctly and in a ...
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Moon, Earthquakes, Chemical Weapons

David B. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 3:00 pm
The media was today almost drenched with the idea that water and other wonders would be been found on the Moon, but unfortunately LXPRESS was the least moist of damp squibs ever and no 50 km plume was...
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Moon, Earthquakes, Chemical Weapons

David B. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 3:00 pm
The media was today almost drenched with the idea that water and other wonders would be been found on the Moon, but unfortunately LXPRESS was the least moist of damp squibs ever and no 50 km plume was...
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My fair, but unforgiving, comment policy

David B. posted an article on - Oct 9, 2009, 2:35 am
Your comments are very welcome on Sciencetext. Indeed, they are positively encouraged as your feedback helps to encourage me to keep providing the tech talk content. So, please do participate in the d...
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Michael Jackson and Schrodinger's Twit

David B. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 3:00 pm
... whether the quantum-controlled cyanide capsule burst and killed the cat or not. Think about it, when you first saw Michael Jackson trending on Twitter, you may not have heard he’d died. Af...
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Gen-F Scientists Ignoring Social Networking

David B. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 3:00 pm
A quick analysis of online social networks, such as LinkedIn and Xing would suggest that a mere 1 in 7 research scientists use such tools as part of their work. This contrasts starkly with the busines...
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Gen-F Scientists Ignoring Social Networking

David B. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 3:00 pm
A quick analysis of online social networks, such as LinkedIn and Xing would suggest that a mere 1 in 7 research scientists use such tools as part of their work. This contrasts starkly with the busines...
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Twitter Spammers

David B. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 3:00 pm
Do you recognize any of these twitter users as being among your followers? If you do, you might want to block them as TwitBlock has flagged these images as the most commonly used by twitter spammers f...
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Gone Phishing

David B. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 11:53 am
The web and even mainstream media is abuzz with news that thousands, yes, thousands of email credentials for Hotmail, Google, and Yahoo users have been leaked to the web. Media pundits are screaming t...
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PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage

David B. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 1:48 am
I couldn’t not mention PhotoSketch, could I? The demo video says it all, but a quick explanation might be useful. Basically, you sketch and label some simple shapes: man throwing, jumping dog, f...
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Sniffer, E coli Clues, Graphene

David B. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 3:00 pm
The second batch of physical science and biomedical research news in the SpectroscopyNOW ezines are live: Optical sniffer detects poison gas – US researchers have developed an optoelectronic no...
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Sniffer, E coli Clues, Graphene

David B. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 3:00 pm
The second batch of physical science and biomedical research news in the SpectroscopyNOW ezines are live: Optical sniffer detects poison gas – US researchers have developed an optoelectronic no...
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Stroke, NIR, Guests

David B. posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 3:00 pm
My latest physical sciences and biomedical news stories for SpectroscopyNOW.com are now live. The eyes have it – US researchers have demonstrated proof of principle that a short and simple asse...
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Stroke, NIR, Guests

David B. posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 3:00 pm
My latest physical sciences and biomedical news stories for SpectroscopyNOW.com are now live. The eyes have it – US researchers have demonstrated proof of principle that a short and simple asse...
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Zombie Botnet Denial

David B. posted an article on - Oct 1, 2009, 3:00 pm
Denial of Service (DoS) and distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks involve an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. This may simply be for malicious purposes as ...
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Nervous, Monopolar, Solvents

David B. posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 3:00 pm
Superfast fluorescent sensor molecules that detect and destroy nerve agent, chemical weapons, caught The Alchemist’s eye this week, as did new insights into the ancient oxygen levels of the earl...
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Nervous, Monopolar, Solvents

David B. posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 3:00 pm
Superfast fluorescent sensor molecules that detect and destroy nerve agent, chemical weapons, caught The Alchemist’s eye this week, as did new insights into the ancient oxygen levels of the earl...
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How to share your Twitter group

David B. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 3:00 pm
Back in January 2009, I started to gather together science types among my twitter friends and followers; I called them Scientwists. By the summer there were well over 500 on the list and a similar num...
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microRNAs

David B. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 3:00 pm
Until 2001, few people had heard the term micro ribonucleic acids, but these little chunks of nucleic acid, just 21 to 23 bases long, have been conserved throughout evolution. They don’t code fo...
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