Overheard in the Science Blogosphere (Element List)

Royal Society Podcast - The Royal Society is producing its own podcasts these days covering science and medicine (interesting that they distinguish the two). The most recent podcast released January 31 covers the history of the science behind climate change and global warming. [MacResearch]

USCGC Healy Accident Report Released - "The upshot is that two divers inexperienced in cold-water dives (they were at 77°N with surface temperatures around 29°F) went in with too much ballast in pockets that were too inaccessible. They were tethered, but whoever was tending the lines didn't see a problem until over 180 feet of line had payed out, even though the dive was only supposed to go to 20 feet." Not the best way to kick off International Polar Year. [NoSeNada]

Long Tail Not So Long After All - You now that long tail theory that Chris Anderson, the Editor-in-Chief of Wired, wrote a whole book about? Well, it turns out that his calculations, which originally said that 57% of Amazon's sales are in the 'long tail,' were off by a factor of two. It's only 25%. D'oh! In response to the recent Valleywag post, Anderson says everyone has known about it for two years. But would the thesis have had the same punch as it did when he first wrote it if he used the 25% figure instead of 57%? [Valleywag]

Benjamin Franklin Award - Did you know there is an award for promoting open access in the life sciences? Kind of tells you something about how hard it is to get scientists to play along, right? [bbgm]

KATRIN MAC-E-Filter - See the video of what it took to move the huge MAC-E-Filter (part of a really big electron neutrino detector) from a boat to a truck and across land to the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe lab in Germany. [Mass Spectrometry Blog]

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