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A recent discussion on HN regarding bee colony collapse [1] made me curious as to the wider views on environmental issues within the HN community (e.g. biodiversity loss, climate c…

On the contrary: Just because a website doesn't look good, doesn't make it bad. To me, the website presents all the information it needs to: the products they stock, their price an…

There's also an R buildpack for Heroku. There's a sample app written using Sinatra (Ruby) included. https://github.com/virtualstaticvoid/heroku-buildpack-r

The original paper is available via the open access journal PLoS: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjo... Also worth reading is Robert May's commentary "Why…

Deferred entry to University may be a good option. A (little known) benefit of deferred university education in the UK is that as an 'independent student' (or mature student) you m…

Announcement on TED blog http://blog.ted.com/2011/02/16/announcing-ted-conversations/ Direct link to TED conversations http://www.ted.com/conversations

Not sure where I heard this ... Biology is really Chemistry. Chemistry is really Physics. Physics is really Maths. and Maths is really hard.

I'd second this! Mendeley ( http://www.mendeley.com/ ) is great. Metadata extraction from pdf papers is a huge time saver.

Creepy video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxe60BcHbUA Parasitoids have fascinating life histories. I'd thoroughly recommend the book "Parasitoids: Behavioral and Evolutionar…

this blog thinks it might be for google's birthday: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/09/googles-particles-d...

Indeed. Unless i'm mistaken, this is more "hosted by Google" than "provided by Google" - a simple form set up by a Google account holder using Google spreadsheets. Though that's no…

Argument from authority? Hawking's seems quite muddled but not all his remarks are entirely "out there" (see Pagel's "Human language as a culturally transmitted replicator", for ex…

Yes, you're quite right. We are apes. (though that may also depend on your classification philosophy [1].) [1] http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/feedback/oct02.html