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Superlinear scaling of airport activity vs city size, by @Richard_Florida in @AtlanticCities bit.ly/KmlHSr 10:29 AM May 25th via Echofon
It all comes down to special effects RT @WiredOpinion: The 35th Birthday of Star Wars? It Died 15 Years Ago bit.ly/JxsuHL 10:19 AM May 25th via Echofon
A little bit of history RT @wilbanks: The gang of four just as we decided to launch #oamonday petition bit.ly/Lv9wAr #openaccess 8:56 AM May 25th via Echofon
kathrynschulz Holy smokes. The book Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust things all incoming students should read is ... mine. nyti.ms/LndyeH 7:53 AM May 25th via web Retweeted by arbesman and 7 others
@kathrynschulz Awesome! 7:58 AM May 25th via Echofon in reply to kathrynschulz
Now we need it as an app RT @BBC_Future: Algorithm that can distinguish between real and fake smiles: ow.ly/b97Fy 5:50 AM May 25th via Echofon
RT @hjoseph: Before you leave town for the long holiday weekend, make sure you check "Sign the WH petition (wh/gov/6TH) off your to-do list! 5:00 AM May 25th via Echofon
Things get exciting RT @altmetrics12: Elsevier Labs' Mike Taylor will be at #altmetrics12...will you? #altmetrics bit.ly/KIm7BT 4:26 PM May 24th via YoruFukurou
@tylercowen In terms of personal tech ecosystems, the site The Setup catalogs this for many interesting people bit.ly/KDvNLF 2:47 PM May 24th via YoruFukurou
@TomLevenson @boraz I was thinking cilantro. 2:33 PM May 24th via YoruFukurou in reply to TomLevenson
Europa has more water than Earth, visualized bit.ly/Lvykvu by @io9 2:29 PM May 24th via YoruFukurou
Oh my RT @sciencegoddess: Ex-particle-physicists make the worst biologists bit.ly/JfxPCp 9:23 AM May 24th via YoruFukurou
But what about anatomical shifts to Bruce Banner? RT @Ng_Dave: The Anatomy of the Hulk. #awesome via @flyingtrilobite bit.ly/JfwVFK 9:16 AM May 24th via YoruFukurou
@David_Dobbs @researchremix I already did a Wired post, but we definitely need more! bit.ly/KwLB54 9:09 AM May 24th via YoruFukurou in reply to David_Dobbs
We need to fix this! MT @PLoS: Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool? bit.ly/Joq1mw by @alokjha 1:47 PM May 23rd via YoruFukurou
We're almost at the half-way point for the open access petition for federally funded research! bit.ly/KwLB54 #openaccess 10:29 AM May 23rd via YoruFukurou
settostun Not a clown car, a clown star MT @neiltyson If you cram a herd of 50-million elephants into a thimble, you get the density of a Pulsar. 10:00 AM May 23rd via TweetDeck Retweeted by arbesman and 2 others
Awesome RT @beccarosen: Why are so many people heading to an obscure website where you plan trips on out-of-date maps? theatln.tc/LqnW51 10:04 AM May 23rd via YoruFukurou
Big-picture stuff RT @io9: A breathtaking excerpt from Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel 2312 on.io9.com/6AiU 4:24 PM May 22nd via YoruFukurou
@tcarmody I feel so patriotic while preserving America's attention. 4:18 PM May 22nd via YoruFukurou in reply to tcarmody

Name Samuel Arbesman
Location Kansas City
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Bio Scientist; Senior Scholar @KauffmanFDN; essayist at Boston Globe, NYT, The Atlantic, Wired, etc; author of 'The Half-Life of Facts' (forthcoming) | arbesman.net