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Tag Archives: 2005
Gough Island – as remote as it gets on the planet
Few places on our planet are as remote as Gough Island in the Southern Atlantic, yet even there, invasive species are not uncommon, as pointed out in a feature article in PLoS Biology, from which today’s Open Access File of … Continue reading
How would you illustrate the difference between humans and chimps?
A paper in PLoS Biology came out in 2005 with the following abstract: Since the divergence of humans and chimpanzees about 5 million years ago, these species have undergone a remarkable evolution with drastic divergence in anatomy and cognitive abilities. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005, CC BY, Chimp, Chimpanzee, Creative Commons, Dutch, Frans de Waal, genome, German, Liza Gross, open licenses, Pan troglodytes, PLoS Biology, PNG, positive selection, Rasmus Nielsen, retouched figure, Reuse, synopsis, Wikibooks, Wikinews
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Greetings from the beech at Mt. Ruapehu
Today’s Open Access File of the Day provides and impression from field work on the beech Nothofagus that grows on the slopes of Mt. Ruapehu in New Zealand. Fig.1 of the synopsis (presumably by Liza Gross) of the article Relaxed Molecular Clock Provides Evidence for … Continue reading
Stare at me for ten seconds, then switch to the (F)
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is the first optical illusion in the series, and so it somewhat fits that the image is labeled “Fig. 1″, albeit it is only the second image appearing in the article. Fixate for 10 s … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005, art, CC BY, Christopher W. Tyler, Creative Commons, Donald MacKay, exhibition, F, gaze, MacKay figure, optical illusion, PLoS Biology, PNG, Russian, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Science in the media, scrolling, Ukrainian, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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Reuse increases discoverability – try an image search for “Sorghum”
When I recently did an image search, I was not surprised to see files from Wikimedia Commons pop up on top of the ca. 600k results, but noticed with pleasure that the first image originated from an Open Access source … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005, CC BY, Creative Commons, genome, image search, Italian, Joseph A. Bedell, Liza Gross, Open Access, PLoS Biology, PNG, Reuse, search, Sorghum, Sorghum bicolor, synopsis, Ukrainian, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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Anatomy of the human ear – editable version
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is editable. It is the first in this series with that property. The originally published figure was composite and provided as a TIFF, but User:Inductiveload went the extra mile and converted both parts to SVG format. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005, adaptation, auditory perception, Axel Brockmann, Catalan, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, Croation, ear, editability, EPS, file size, graphics, Ido, Kazakh, Lars Chittka, open licenses, PLoS Biology, primer, Reuse, SVG, TIFF, translation, vector graphics, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wiktionary
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Alu elements in our genomes
Today’s Open Access File of the Day shows the chromosomes in a lymphocyte of a woman. Red marks DNA in general, green gene-rich regions therein that are known as Alu elements. Cropped from the composite Fig. 7 of the article Three-Dimensional Maps of All Chromosomes … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005, Alu element, Andreas Bolzer, CC BY, composite figure, Creative Commons, DNA, English, female, genome, Hebrew, human, human genome, JPG, karyotype, lymphocyte, Open Access, PLoS Biology, Wikibooks, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary
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De pleurobranchaea novo molluscorum genere – who was Stephan Friedrich Leue?
“Few families have had an impact on medicine to equal that of the Meckel family.” Such starts the abstract of a paper published last year in the subscription-based journal Neurosurgery. One of the traces of this is the name of … Continue reading
Open Access File of the Day on Wikimedia Commons: Qualia of sound.jpg
All of the files presented so far in the Open Access File of the Day on Wikimedia Commons series have been reused only for display. Today’s is an example for remixing, which is another of the freedoms openly licensed (or libre Open … Continue reading
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Tagged 2005, adaptation, Andreas Herz, auditory processing, auditory transduction chain, CC BY, CC BY-SA, Creative Commons, derivative work, GFDL, Gratis Open Access, Italian, Japanese, JPG, Libre Open Access, license compatibility, license migration, Licensing update, Liza Gross, Open Access, Open Definition, open licenses, PLoS Biology, Remixing, Reuse, synopsis, Tim Gollisch, translation, whistle, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia
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