ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

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It's been a year since I started Draw Science. Can't believe it. The idea's come a long way, from just a blog that I started for fun, to an open-access journal in the works. Now, I'm travelling while I set up the journal and doing a study on behalf of my other organization, #IndieSci. Tell me if you'd like to meet up and grab a coffee. Keep track of travels at blog.drawscience.org!

PICTURES, NOT PARAGRAPHS.

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article:
W. Howard Levie, & Richard Lentz (1982). Effects of text illustrations: A review of research Educational Technology Research & Development, 30 (4), 195-232 : 10.1007/BF02765184

PUT THE ART IN ARTICLE

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Science communication is broken. Let's fix it.
I've already ranted about the problems with science communication. Even when a layperson gets access to a paper despite all the pay-per-view journals, the use of esoteric jargon makes it practically impossible for the public to read fresh-from-the-lab-bench science. For the last few months, I've been working on a solution through Draw Science. Now it's time to take off the band-aid and treat the wound.

I want to make an open access infographic journal.
We're talking the whole sha-bang: trademarks, corporation filings, DOI's, CLOCKSS archival, etc. By the end of this, Draw Science will have the same legal legitimacy of PLOS or any other online scholarly journal. The barrier is that this costs a little bit of cash; cash that a college student like myself doesn't have.

PS. Sorry for disappearing for a while. I was busy trying to make this happen!

GLASSES-FREE COMPUTERS

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: Huang, F., Wetzstein, G., Barsky, B., & Raskar, R. (2014). Eyeglasses-free display ACM Transactions on Graphics, 33 (4), 1-12 DOI: 10.1145/2601097.2601122 [Full Text (PDF)]

Suggested By: Adithya Nott

HOTTER, SMARTER, BETTER BRAINS.

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Articles:
James F. Gillooly (2013). Hotter is Smarter: The temperature-dependence of brain size in vertebrates PeerJ : 10.7287/peerj.preprints.155v1 [Full Text (PDF)]
Wright KP Jr, Hull JT, & Czeisler CA (2002). Relationship between alertness, performance, and body temperature in humans. American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology, 283 (6) PMID: 12388468 [Full Text (PDF)]

SLOWING HEART DISEASE

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

Article: Blazevic T, Schwaiberger AV, Schreiner CE, Schachner D, Schaible AM, Grojer CS, Atanasov AG, Werz O, Dirsch VM, & Heiss EH (2013). 12/15-lipoxygenase contributes to platelet-derived growth factor-induced activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3. The Journal of biological chemistry, 288 (49), 35592-603 PMID: 24165129 [Full Text (HTML)]

Suggested By: Dr. Atanas G. Atanasov.

                              Principal Investigator 

                              Department of Pharmacognosy, Vienna

PLANT = PILL?

Viputheshwar Sitaraman Founder, Blogger Draw Science.

 

Article: Tran TV, Malainer C, Schwaiger S, Atanasov AG, Heiss EH, Dirsch VM, & Stuppner H (2014). NF-κB inhibitors from Eurycoma longifolia. Journal of natural products, 77 (3), 483-8 PMID: 24467387 [Full Text (PDF)] 

Suggested By: Dr. Atanas G. Atanasov.

                              Principal Investigator 

                              Department of Pharmacognosy, Vienna