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Critically endangered: the Galapagos mangrove finch (Camarhynchus heliobates), the rarest of Darwin’s finches
By definition, endangered species consist of low numbers of individuals, which also affects the probability of being able to take good images or recordings of the species, or to find such materials if they already exist. Wikimedia Commons has the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, Bulgarian, Camarhynchus heliobates, CatScan, CC BY, Creative Commons, Critically endangered, Darwin's finches, endangered species, Galapagos, Henrik Brumm, IUCN Red List, Michael Dvorak, PLoS ONE, PNG, tools, toolserver, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikispecies
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A tumor in the making
I have been asked a few times (example) why the Open Access File of the Day series is so slanted towards science (rather than, say, humanities), and biomedical research in particular. I typically reply something along the lines of … … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, attribution, Biology, BMC Cancer, CatScan, CC BY, chemistry, Creative Commons, cross-disciplinary, Engineering, Farsi, History, humanities, JPG, Linguistics, Literature, Mathias Fasshauer, Medicine, Open Access, Physics, Polish, science, tools, toolserver, tumor, tumor growth, Universität Leipzig, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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Sari filtering in Matlab
Today’s Open Access File of the Day depicts a group of women washing utensils and vegetables in Matlab [sic!], one of which can be seen to use a sari filter for drinking water, as an illustration of the following observation: In a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2003, Bangladesh, categories, CatScan, CC BY, cloth filtering, Creative Commons, drinking water, infection, infectious disease, Jane Bradbury, Matlab, Nynorsk, PLoS Biology, PNG, Sari, Sari filtering, Slovenian, toolserver, water, water quality, Wikimedia COm, Wikipedia
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Open Access and Parasites: 39 intersections on Commons
A CatScan for intersections between the categories Open access (publishing) and Parasites an Wikimedia Commons brought about 39 files, of which the following one is today’s Open Access File of the Day, depicting Toxoplasma gondii: Cover image of the February 2006 issue of PLoS Pathogens, referring to the article Cytoskeletal Components of … Continue reading
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Tagged 2006, CatScan, CC BY, Cover image, Creative Commons, JPG, Ke Hu, Norwegian, Parasites, Partuguese, PLoS Pathogens, toolserver, Toxoplasma gondii, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia
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