The Science of Scientific Writing

Some concrete examples on how to write better; concrete!

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Academic search

academic.live.com just launched. It's a citeseer/google scholar-like search by MSN.

Mac shortcuts

A couple of shortcuts I learned recently.

Ctrl-command-D while hovering over a word, will give you a dictionary definition.
Shift-command-4 gets a screenshot of a selection.
Shift-command-3 gets a screenshot of the whole screen.
Alt-command-= zooms in.
Ctrl-alt-command-8 funketizes.