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I am a freelance science and technology writer based in Cambridge, England, writing on everything from astrobiology to nanotechnology by way of the mostr traditional fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry, medicine, pharma, physics, and spectroscopy. You can read my latest ramblings at http://www.sciencebase.com/ as well as pick up cutting edge science news. I am a keen amateur photographer, karate enthusiast, guitarist and singer.
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APS Physics | FPS | Editor's Comments
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11:50am
1 review
environment
http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/editor.cfm
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Climate change consensus, did you say? I don't think so. This just in from the American Physical Society (APS) essentially reversing its stance on anthropogenic climate change.

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the physics arXiv blog & Blog Archive & The science of the Grateful Dead
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11:41am
1 review
grateful-dead
http://arxivblog.com/?p=527
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Good to see that Deadheads are alive and well at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. In the heart of one of the world's most secret weapons labs, these guys are hard at work developing a science of the Grateful Dead, the 60s psychedelic band that played together until 1995. Today, they take the world of theoretical physics by storm with their results.

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194 Bugs Fixed in Wordpress 2.6
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8:15am
2 reviews
blogs
http://www.sciencetext.com/194-bugs-fixed-in-wordpress-26.html
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194 bugs fixed in wordpress 2.6 plus a stack of new features

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The Skeptic magazine news page & Blog Archive & Science Blogging 2008: London
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12:42am
1 review
science
http://skeptic.org.uk/news/2008/1171
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Will you join us for the first UK science blogging conference?

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OpenDrive - Free Online Drive and Syncing
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Jul 17, 11:22pm
15 reviews
internet-tools, opendrive
http://www.opendrive.com/
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OpenDrive is like Dropbox, or even a Google Mail virtual drive, but a few enhancements. It's basically a remote drive for your computer, that allows you to store, share or back up files from your computer on the Internet. You can store anything and share it with anyone, right from your desktop. Start storing and sharing today. Free beta gives you 1 gigabyte and is available for Windows only at the moment, Mac coming soon.

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Luke, I am Your Father: 8 Memorable Movie Misquotes
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Jul 17, 9:14am
3 reviews
acting, movies, quotes, casablanca, misquotes
http://www.flixster.com/articles/luke-i-am-your-father-movie-misquotes
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Say that again, Sam?

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Study: Site Redirects Abundant, Aid Phishers - Security Fix
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Jul 17, 6:55am
1 review
internet
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/study_site_redirects_abund...
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Close your open redirects unless you want your site to become fishing bait.
"When someone else can manipulate your redirect and craft a link however they want, that can really hurt your brand. If you're eBay and you have an open redirect in your site, that makes it really easy for a phisher to incorporate the actual eBay site," in a link that ultimately forwards people to a counterfeit eBay page, Shue said.

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The official update feed from the Google Apps team: Document, spreadsheet and pr…
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Jul 17, 5:17am
1 review
desktop-publishing
http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2008/07/document-spreadsheet-and-presen...
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Instead of starting from scratch, Google Docs now offers a wide range of document, spreadsheet and presentation templates that you can use to quickly get started on new projects.

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WordPress as a Social Network?
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Jul 17, 4:45am
2 reviews
blogs, wordpress, social-media
http://www.blahblahtech.com/2008/07/wordpress-as-a-social-network.html
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Could blogging and social media be better served by viewing Wordpress as a social networking tool? Wayne Smallman of blah thinks so.

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What does DNA mean to you? #14
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Jul 17, 4:39am
1 review
genetics
http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/07/16/what-does-dna-mean-to-you-14/
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DNA is meaningless.
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