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Science and Web 2.0: Talking About Science vs. Doing Science from abhishektiwari

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Admins: please keep an eye on the room for the next 9 hours or so (until I wake up again) and remove posts by the guy spamming multiple rooms. Thanks! from neilfws

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Fwd: BBC News - Stem cell experts say they believe a small group of scientists is effectively vetoing high quality science from publication in journals - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8490291.stm (via http://ff.im/fgFEr) from bersenev

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165 million year old spider fossil found -- 120 million years older than the only two other specimens from benjamintseng

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If we are living in a computer simulation, it is probably written in Perl or C++ or something horrid and bug prone like that. Everybody would be happy, rich, beautiful and healthy if it were written in Python. from iddux

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I have MySQL and Oracle databases I want to mine for associations between parameters. What's best: Python, Ruby, Perl?? #bioinformatics from wjjessen

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