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A Fantastic Vision of Science

From Seed magazine, a visualization of the relationships between 800,000 published scientific papers---a snapshot of today's scientific enterprise. An exquisitely beautiful presentation of connection. They're giving away the posters if you pay for shipping and handling. Link from Brian.

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I can't get over how pretty this is: That's what my colleague Saheli said to me about this Nature Map of Science, as reported in Seed magazine. It's a very cool image, and you need to download the 5.3MB version [Read More]

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woo hoo! i got 4. i already know who's gettin' 'em, too.

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