Molecularist

"ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) is the first, most-widely used, and most scientifically validated computerized concussion evaluation system."

"Due to awareness raised by the media, advances in clinical assessment and treatment, and implementation of sports concussion management programs in a growing number of schools, we are beginning to see progress for student-athletes."

"High schools and educators are taking concussion injuries seriously"

"By contrast, "a less connected person who is strategically placed in the core of the network will have a significant effect that leads to dissemination through a large fraction of the population."" [via @drkiki]

Maybe now folks will realize that numbers of followers alone, doesn't cut it.

"A new technique for analyzing early English texts is gradually revealing the history of the apostrophe." [via @EvilSue]

"Simply add the width, an 'x', and the height (example) of the image you want and my script will spit out a gray box to the size you want with the image dimensions in black Arial text centered in the middle of the box." [via @mattbalara]

Very intriguing. Well done. Where does Biology begin for you?

"Slashtags are a simple way to add information to a tweet that helps both people and machines understand context around a tweet. At the end of the content of the tweet you add a / followed by some two and three letter codes that provide the meaning (common slashtag codes are by, via, cc, and re)."

"Those looking to the iPad to return us to some semblance of a print-like reading experience are basically wrong, I believe. In fact, lots of really smart people will continue to get this wrong going forward. We’re all still figuring out. That’s the definition of an opportunity." [via @moleitau]

We shouldn't try to make the iPad reading experience mirror a static paper-based magazine anymore than Gutenberg should have tried to make static paper-based books be like monk-o-matic manuscripts, that is, hand-written mutli-dimensionally illustrated books. Indeed, I repeat, the opportunity is to take hundreds of years of print-publishing and set it free in the digital realm where there are a whole new set of rules and parameters in which to evolve new forms of reading experiences. Do not do just "more of the same." That'd be a waste of time. [and folks in the comments know this too]

"“The book will never die. But the textbook probably will,” says Inkling CEO Matt MacInnis. Inkling is working directly with textbook publishers. First, they’ll port their existing tomes onto Apple’s iPad as interactive, socialized objects. Then, they’ll create all-new learning modules — interactive, social, and mobile — that leave ink-on-paper textbooks in the dust."

"Inkling makes it easy to bring rich, interactive learning content to tablet devices like iPad."

I like the tag cloud as marketing and navigation. [via @leebryant]

I don't think this is for building social networking services (front end), but very sure this is for plumbing the depths of all social networking services (data end). With the gang that is either at Google or gone through Google, it's about opening up our social graphs to the Machine that is Google.

[via @karllong]

Cool article on using slime molds to model best connections in complex networks. Key thing is that the molds do as well as engineers, so therefore, there must be some simple principles governing the building of these networks. And we won't need engineers anymore?

"Tokyo’s is not the first transport network to be modelled in this way. A study published in December by Andrew Adamatzky and Jeff Jones of the University of the West of England used oat flakes to represent Britain’s principal cities. Slime moulds modelled the motorway network of the island quite accurately, with the exception of the M6/M74 into Scotland (the creatures chose to go through Newcastle rather than past Carlisle)."

"My gut feeling is that the model of journalism as a craft will end up more like astronomy, where amateur astronomers are a vital part of the progress of the subject as a whole. Amateur astronomers produce vital data that the professionals use and build upon, as well as creating the odd “exclusive” themselves." [via @moleitau]

I think the astronomy community is a good model, not only for journalism, but for the way DIYBio can go. Similar balance between working together with main-stream-practitioners and striking out on one's own to gain insights and such.