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The Force11 Scholarly Commons Working Group (SCWG) aims to
[a]rticulate a set of high level principles... for the Scholarly Commons[,]... focus on... continue reading
Reconstructing the 3D shape of lightning strikes from their thunder
A nearby lightning strike is accompanied by a loud roll of thunder that can last for many seconds. The stroke conducts current between cloud and ground, simultaneously superheating the air along the path of the stroke. The resultant shock wave... continue reading
All too often we come across Ph.D. students who after 2-3 years of effort still struggle with their first (co-)authorship. In many cases, this may be considered a waste of financial resources and human... continue reading
Supervised and unsupervised machine learning approach to the CMS data quality monitoring
The CMS experiment at the LHC is one of the biggest and most complex general purpose detectors ever built. The constant monitoring of the data quality is vital to guarantee a proper and efficient operation of the detector and reliable physics... continue reading
Idea: speeding up the transition towards a scholarly commons by summarizing and reviewing existing charters and pinpointing where there’s still work to be done.
Science is in transition. But in what direction, demanded by whom, accepted by whom... continue reading
Through the Hive Mapping Cooperative, five youth-serving organizations in Chicago have been working to develop shared systems for teens to collect, analyze, visualize, and share georeferenced data using free and open... continue reading
Modify and run other people's research code in your browser
Science makes progress by reusing results and building on them. For research software this is pretty hard (the people writing it often do not have the time to make slick installers like big libraries do). As a result there is not as much reuse as... continue reading
Coffee reuse and pre-consumer vs post-consumer waste recycling
After it was reported that used coffee grounds could be converted into a useful product it was suggested in the Times Higher Education (10 Sept 2015) that this could be a reason for the end user of coffee to use fresh rather than instant coffee.... continue reading
How to Build a Global Tree of All Known Languages? - A Brief Demonstration.
I used the Dedius’s binary coding (with MrBayes) of the [WALS dataset]... continue reading
Mythology and ancient origins of the domestic dog
The use of appropriate statistical techniques applied to myths and folktales concerning domestic animals may provide valuable informations as to their origin and... continue reading
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