03.03.07

Science Links for the Weekend

Posted in commentary, news links at 12:15 pm by Trevor

Here’s some of the best science links I’ve come across over the past couple weeks:

Volunteers at LibriVox have created a free audiobook of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). Total running time: 24:22:37, total download size: 702.2 MB. (HT: Boing Boing).
Neurotopia hosts the 74th edition of Tangled Bank, which offers some of the best science writing from around the blogosphere over the past couple weeks.
Migrations brought my attention to an excellent cell biology animation with a voiceover explaining the processes you are seeing illustrated. If you do any cell biology teaching, this may be a great video to play in your class.
You may feel like you’re underpaid. This New York Times article provides Web sites that offer information on average salaries based on job title and description, education, and experience. If you happen to work at Washington State University, you can peruse the salaries of any non-student employee at Cougster, which obtained the information using a public information request (click Cougster Files, then WSU Pay). I’ve talked before about tips for getting employed as an undergraduate researcher.