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The Best of Nature Network: 19-25 June 2010

Blogs Where else to begin this week other than with this excellent video from Stephen Curry (and children) explaining why science is not just for geniuses? It’s a trailer for the film he’d like to make if he wins the current I’m A Scientist Get Me Out Of Here! contest. And it involves cheese. Jennifer Rohn picks up the theme, continuing her appeal for metrics that reward the ‘foot soldiers’ of science, the researchers whose efforts produce the lower-tier papers, upon whose midget shoulders stand the giants of science. Similarly, Mike Fowler compares the flow of research to an ecological  … Read more