Monthly Archives: March 2007

tofu

how do you tell when tofu has gone bad?  does it smell or look different from when it is fresh?  post a comment if you have info on this.

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jose bedia, painter

while looking in chelsea galleries i stumbled upon the george adams gallery, which was displaying a survey of paintings by jose bedia. i had previously only seen one of his paintings at the los angeles county museum of art and … Continue reading

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Expertise in pictorial perception: eye-movement patterns and visual memory in artists and laymen.

A new article by Vogt and Magnussen (PubMed ID:17357707) was discussed at the site Cognitive Daily (note to self: add to Bloglines account). The article describes research to examine what artists and non-artists focus on while looking at an image.  … Continue reading

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NISO’s Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group

the SERU working group has put together a draft of best practices (titled SERU Framework–version 0.3); it is posted on their website at http://www.niso.org/committees/SERU/index.html.  this draft provides a clear outline of what the issues are in communications between libraries and … Continue reading

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publish your work in the past

a researcher had her work accepted for publication in 2006 in a prestigious journal, but instead of it being published in a 2006 issue it was published in a 2005 issue.  the 2005 issue was published in 2006.  in this … Continue reading

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don’t look at the pictures, just look at the text

when i first started working at this medical library i was heartily disturbed when i would pass by books with graphic images on the covers.  if the book is about a particular technique – let’s use open heart surgery for … Continue reading

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