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| The last of the megafauna. Julian Fennessy/New York Times |
Good morning! This week in science news:
MIT
anthropologist Amy Johnson published a
great piece on Medium this week about the 2011 Japanese earthquake, social
media, and the nature of digital citizenship.
The NIH has an age
problem.
Thomson Reuters uses citation data to predict the 2014 Nobel
class. Sure, they've been doing so since 2002, but Eugene Garfield
was doing this sort of thing back in the
60's.
Marmosets!
Being cute, watching TV, and participating in field experiments.
Interview
with Dr. Peter Piot, a member of the team who first isolated the Ebola virus.
Apparently choosing the name "Ebola" involved a few drinks, a late
night conversation, and an inaccurate map.
Does Big Data mean the end
of clinical trials?
A historian takes
on the oil industry in Louisiana.
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