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Synthetic biology funding

Fabricio Pamplona Inspiration November 9, 2015

Public sector funding of synthetic biology projects is rising each year, and the numbers from the “U.S. Trends in Synthetic Biology Research Funding” report show an explosion of resources coming from DARPA since 2010. No doubt this is a strategic area of…Read more

How scientists fool themselves

Fabricio Pamplona Inspiration November 9, 2015

Bias and cognitive fallacies. These are the most dangerous traps that a scientist should avoid. The journal Nature published a must-read article entitled “How Scientists Fool Themselves – and How They Can Stop“, and it brings a nice infographic that should be printed…Read more

The beauty of data visualization

Fabricio Pamplona Inspiration October 25, 2015

This TED talk was the beggining of everything for me. David McCandless, this genious of data visualization was my first contact with data visualization and I really recommend it to everyone interest in the topic. Just a necessary warning: YOU…Read more

Scientific Illustrations Paradise

Fabricio Pamplona Inspiration October 22, 2015

Abandon all productive time, ye who enter here. A little adaptation from Dante´s Inferno as a warning if you want to enter, not in hell, but in a paradise of huge scientific illustrations collections. If you click in one of…Read more

Darwin´s infographic and the only ilustration in his book

Fabiola Soares Inspiration October 5, 2015

When the idea is too big to write down, you must draw. Even Darwin did it. Darwin had one of the most important ideas of all time. He and Wallace, of course. Let’s not forget the poor guy. What a…Read more

Graphical abstract – Top 16 #not

Fabricio Pamplona Inspiration September 25, 2015

According to Elsevier, these are 16 examples of good graphical abstract in published articles. We respectfully disagree. While Mind the Graph team reckon the effort of the authors to create these figures, they can be much better. A simple way…Read more

Infographics tools and its power!

Fabricio Pamplona Inspiration September 25, 2015

Infographics are a powerful way of communicating information since they combine data and visual images, thereby making it easier to digest, remember and share information. The term infographic has quite popular in the last few years, as you may see…Read more