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Here is the original link: http://myrmecos.net/2011... - Jan Wessnitzer

...and the last two on that list are not pictures of insects ;) - Jan Wessnitzer

no dice - Graham Steel

Likewise. - Heather

nothing here - Wolfgang S

http://www.spandidos-publications.com/10... - no luck for me. - Heather

Please email: http://is.gd/Ag43 - Iddo Friedberg

Nope. Bounce. - Heather

like as in 2x like ;) - Jan Wessnitzer

I would have said x10000 like but I ran out of......... - Graham Steel

jwessnit AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk - Jan Wessnitzer

Thanks for trying. Got this article now. - Jan Wessnitzer

"Polilov found that M.mymaripenne has one of the smallest nervous systems of any insect, consisting of just 7,400 neurons. For comparison, the common housefly has 340,000 and the honeybee has 850,000. And yet, with a hundred times fewer neurons, the wasp can fly, search for food, and find the right places to lay its eggs." - Jan Wessnitzer

'like' as in 'how do you cope?' - Jan Wessnitzer

not very well - got "the shakes" and everything...... think it's the cable outside back of the flat. engineer due to come on Friday afternoon. Gggrrr - Graham Steel

Had to cancel today's appointment (neighbour not around to let engineer in). £25 canc. fee. Too late to get one out tomorrow, so next appt. is Monday morning. :-(( - Graham Steel

Jan, at the risk of making sweeping national stereotypes, I have never met anyone who have as much difficulty liking (?) the idea of the nation state as Germans. Perhaps it's because "Nationalstaat" means something rather different, I don't really know. In Britain (and in France too I believe) we're completely comfortable with it :) - Winckel

:-) - Winckel from iPod

no luck here. URL is http://www.heterocycles.jp/library... - Graham Steel

No luck with either link. - LB: #TeamMonique

do you? - trinida

punk and funk is on earth. you just have to find it. better then hell and heaven options :) - sumdane

no access - Eszter Szalai

resent. Hope it works. Let me know. - Wolfgang S

"This fall, Stanford decided to experiment by offering its three most popular computer science classes to the public—for free. Within weeks, 200,000 people from around the globe signed up, with Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, taught by renowned Stanford professors Peter Norvig and Sebastian Thrun (pictured above), attracting a whopping 160,000 students." - Jan Wessnitzer

"If you head over to Wolfram Alpha right now and input "flights overhead" into the search box, the site will return all the planes that are currently over your position, their altitude, angle, and slant distance." - Jan Wessnitzer

Another WA disappointment... never seen http://www.flightradar24.com/ ? - Egon Willighagen

@Egon, no I had not come across flightradar24. Indeed, much nicer! - Jan Wessnitzer

I have died a thousand deaths ;) - Jan Wessnitzer

and probably also fueled some suicidal tendencies here and there... :( - Jan Wessnitzer

this list also mentions which books use R - Jan Wessnitzer

A while ago I started implementing my own alerter using pubmed APIs etc.... I abandoned the project though because of all those other projects :( The proposed application name made me giggle (Alert Service for Scientists ;) - Jan Wessnitzer

Actually, the company is F1000 and they already have some nifty things that would fit right in. - Björn Brembs

"So how do we disrupt the academic-research business the same way that Amazon and the web have disrupted book publishing, or blogs and The Huffington Post have disrupted newspapers? Nielsen doesn’t have any silver bullets, but he does suggest that government agencies funding research should require that those submitting papers must provide their research free of charge (the National Institute of Health has started doing this with research it funds or supports)." - Jan Wessnitzer

McCarthy's proposal for the event put forward the idea that "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it". http://www.bbc.co.uk/news... - Jan Wessnitzer

no dice - Graham Steel

got it, thanks to Steve Koch. - YGC

"As iPhone 4S’s flood into the hands of the public, users are coming face-to-face with something that they weren’t quite expecting: Apple’s new voice interface, Siri, has an attitude. Ask Siri where to hide a body, for instance, and she’ll give you a list of choices that include a reservoir, a mine, and a swamp. Ask her how much would could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood, and she might tell you the answer is 42 cords, or she might ask you to clarify if it’s an African or European woodchuck. Joshua Topolsky’s at This Is My Next began gathering some of the service’s cheekier answers on Wednesday, and now there’s a Tumblr up called Shit That Siri Says which houses an even more extensive, growing collection. Siri’s answers are cute, but they’re not much different from the “Easter eggs” that sly coders have been slipping into software for decades. Or are they? I want to suggest, in all earnestness, that as Siri’s repertoire of canned responses grows, Apple could end up... more... - Winckel from Bookmarklet

Hasn't Apple already? ;) http://www.winrumors.com/siri-wh... - Jan Wessnitzer

Let's get Siri and Watson to have a baby. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

" Do you like english version of website?" :) no access though, sorry - Wolfgang S

Nothing here. - LB: #TeamMonique

email: http://bit.ly/r1fLZv thank you! - Ricardo Vidal

can't get it... - Björn Brembs

no joy - Wolfgang S

This is a book with hundreds of pages in many different PDF files. Which do you need? - Björn Brembs

no access, sorry - Wolfgang S

no luck - Jan Wessnitzer

can't access :-( - Björn Brembs

no luck here either. - Graham Steel

Thanks everyone - sorry for the delayed reply! - Jo Young

“I think Stephen [Curry] is right to highlight the plight of senior postdocs. It can’t really be argued that these are not competent and productive scientists since they have been hired and rehired on successive short-term contracts in a highly competitive market. These people are evidently playing a pretty important role, albeit not as research leaders. They will typically have accrued very specialised skills which really will be wasted if not put to use in one of the few labs (at widely scattered geographical locations) which use the same techniques. As the Science is Vital submissions showed, PIs are often very sorry to lose these people.When I talk about waste here I am not arguing that the individuals careers have been wasted, but that the scientific establishment, and the absence of an effective career structure is wasting their talents by forcing them out of science while training and retraining newcomers to try to fill their shoes.” - Jan Wessnitzer

A Twitter-sourced alternative UK Citizenship Test (via @timsk3) - Mark Longair

7/10 - Jan Wessnitzer

"The sad news of the death of another tech great has come. Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language and a key developer of the Unix operating system, has passed away. For those of us running Mac OS X, iOS, Android and many other non-Windows OS, we have him to thank. Many of those running Windows do too, as many of the applications you're using were written in C." - Jan Wessnitzer

Google are not eating their own dogfood! - Jan Wessnitzer

https://plus.google.com/1126787... - Jan Wessnitzer