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Friday, 15 January 2010

...life works!

...when it's a fine day for Science!

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Mendeley es un buscador de documentos académicos, para compartir entre miembros de diversos ámbitos científicos tus propias investigaciones y artículos, y encontrar también referencias interesantes hechas por otros autores.

Utiliza una aplicación de escritorio para gestionar nuestros propios documentos, y la web para impulsar las funciones de "red social". A partir de la aplicación de escritorio (Mendeley Desktop), podemos subir nuestros ficheros, desde el mismo ordenador o importarlos de algunas fuentes externas. Y en el sitio web de Mendeley, podremos conocer colegas con quienes formar grupos de intereses comunes, para difundir ese material. Si acaso ayuda para la función de "Comunidad" de Mendeley, desde los perfiles de usuario están al alcance los datos profesionales de los miembros, como CVs y publicaciones, siempre y cuando decidas mostrarlos.

http://www.neoteo.com/mendeley-difunde-y-descubre-documentos-15147.neo

Friday, 8 January 2010

...music evolves around her!!!



Join our unique experiment, and be the first to hear music as it evolves, right between your ears!

The organic world – animals, plants, viruses – is the product of Darwinian evolution by natural selection. Natural selection expresses the idea that organisms (more accurately their genes) vary and that variability has consequences. Some variants are bad and go extinct; others are good and do exceptionally well. This process, repeated for two billion years, has given us the splendours of life on earth.

It has also given us the splendours of human culture. This may seem like a bold claim, but it is self-evidently true. People copy cultural artefacts – words, songs, images, ideas – all the time from other people. Copying is imperfect: there is "mutation". Some cultural mutants do better than others: most die but some are immensely successful; they catch on; they become hits. This process, repeated for fifty thousand years, has given us all that we make, say and do; it is the process of "cultural evolution".

However, the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. For example, how important is human creative input compared to audience selection? Is progress smooth and continuous or step-like? We set up DarwinTunes as a test-bed for the evolution of music, the oldest and most widespread form of culture; and, thanks to your participation, these questions will soon be answered.




http://darwintunes.org/