Tag Archive | Nature
Super-Bugs in Bugs and A Media Scare
This e-pub ahead of print has sent the media into a tizzy, and why would it not! Consider the power of this headline in your morning newspaper: Bed Bug: Cimex lectularius Image via Wikimedia. “FLESH EATING BACTERIA ISOLATED FROM BED BUGS” Now that the zombie apocalypse has failed, there must be some new fad to […]
Monkey Business
One of the wings of our home is being extended, and hence is open to all sorts of intruders, like this kind soul who decided to get comfy there and settle in for the day. We fed him bread, bananas and he was eager to pose for my cam! Random weirdness that made my day!
PLoS vs Nature: The Open Access Showdown
So, remember, a few days ago I had talked about the launch of an Open Access journal from the NPG stable? If you were too busy having a life, go, check out the post here. Anyways, in what seems like an almost sarcastic repetition of history, PLoS welcomes the latest addition to the OA field. […]
Nature Dabbles in Open Access: A Double Edged Sword?
Nature Publications Group, in a Press release announced the launch of a new, open access journal called Scientific Reports. However, it wasn’t long ago that the same people had launched a vicious vilification of the open access model, especially that of PloS ONE, (1) saying: Public Library of Science (PLoS), the poster child of the […]
