The Web of Science
At the scientific curiosity blog, a post on how web 2.0 is transforming scientific research and publication.
On the technical side, two exciting portals that could possibly revolutionize scientific communications have come online in recent times. Late last year, the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a non-profit organization championing ‘open-access‘ in science publishing, began a web-based journal called PLoS One. Other than being openly accessible to anyone with an internet connection (as opposed to ones that require paid subscriptions), this online-journal is distinguished by its criterion for acceptance: the peer-review process only considers the technical and methodological soundness of the scientific experiments, and accepts paper without any subjective considerations for perceived importance or relevance of the work.
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mugil
July 4th, 2007, 3:17 pm | #
The term Pundit (the U doing duty for the cheek-puffed-up-aspirated-P+a) a looong time ago in the US(?) became a tongue-in-cheek leg-pulling put down for op-ed writers with pretensions (imagined or otherwise) to expertise. Instapundit.com picked up the term about fifty years later and ran with it. Why call yourself Desipundits? What else can a pandit(a) be but desi? Guru seems to get more respect. So if South Asian is not OK why shd desipundit be OK?
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