A ruby gem utility which adds various academic manuscript related syntax features to Markdown, and helps to pre-process files for later conversion with something like Pandoc. Looks interesting.

An interesting workflow for collecting references, making notes and assembling a paper, on a Mac. I've just upgraded to DEVONthink 2, and am loving it. Now I'm tempted by Sente too.

Collection of tips and information about using R and other news about statistics.

Nice mitochondria!

"3. Don't worry about scientific accuracy when employing metaphors. If you're writing a book about physics, it doesn't matter if you get your biology right. After all, it's just a metaphor! What better way to demonstrate the theory of relativity than to compare it to how humans evolved from beluga whales?"

Public domain audio book version of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Encouraging news