Archive for April 29th, 2009

Public Library of Science articles in the news

Posted in April 29th, 2009

The PLoS, http://www.plos.org/, In the News sections always has an interesting collection of articles to peruse. Yeah, it’s mostly biology based, but where else can you get Habsburg Inbreeding, Chimp Meat-Sex Barter, and Red Faced Drinkers? PLoS journal articles currently receiving widespread media attention: Silent Heart Attacks, Spanish Habsburg Dynasty Inbreeding, Semantic Enhancement of PLoS [...]

No Comments

Michael Roston does not know the difference between Google Hot Trends and most popular searches overall

Posted in April 29th, 2009

by rog in Uncategorized

Over on True/Slant, Michael Roston opines: Read it and weep, Internet-using America. The fifth most common search on Google earlier this morning, via Google Trends, was ’swine flue.’ Not ‘flu’ as in influenza, but ‘flue’ Hmmm. I guess he doesn’t understand the difference between Google Hot Trends and Google’s most popular searches overall. From their [...]

No Comments