My mind is a-flutter - no coherent post

[lauradi7dw]

From The Economist,  made by Kai Krause, seen on  eegatland's twitter feed,

discussion of projections here:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/truetruesizeofafrica

This is a museum one needs to see:

In the Swedish History Museum http://www.historiska.se/misc/menyer-och-funktioner/menyer/globala-menyn/inenglish/
pointed out in the medievalpoc tumblr.

Quotation from J Med Libr Assoc. Oct 2012, 100(4-suppl): S1-S4   Scott Plutchak
"(interestingly, there is no correlation between the number of times an article is cited by other articles in PMC [PubMed Central] and the number of overall citations identified by Google Scholar)."
  We drove past the National Library of Medicine and part of the NIH headquarters on Sunday. I was excited.

I never noticed until today that there is a tiny snippet of "The Spanish Polka" (known to some as the chewing gum song)  in "Good Morning" from "Singing in the Rain."  See (hear) at about 2:12  (it really only lasts a second - enough to be recognizable, short enough to be a sample)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5kD2kzOCTQ