“In summary, a zombie outbreak is likely to lead to the collapse of civilisation, unless it is dealt with quickly. While aggressive quarantine may contain the epidemic, or a cure may lead to coexistence of humans and zombies, the most effective way to contain the rise of the undead is to hit hard and hit often. As seen in the movies, it is imperative that zombies are dealt with quickly, or else we are all in a great deal of trouble.”
(Munz, Hudea, Imad and Smith, Mathematical Modelling of a Zombie Infection, Infectious Disease Modelling Research Progress, chapter 4, pp 135-156, Nova Press 2009)
Category Archives: Scholarship
graph of the day
this is why reading ahead is a useful skill
“Science is the game we play with God to find out what His rules are.”
(Cornelius Krasel)
quote of the day
“Some of my best friends are hydrogeologists.”
(Adam Jarvis, el jefe de la HERO)
Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems
Written by Philip Bernstein, highly recommended as a classic, and found in PDF form on the network.
quote of the day
“Little-known literary fun fact: in Dante’s Inferno, the third circle of Hell is the home of those who use the mouse and cursor to point at things.”
(Jonathan Shewchuk, on giving an academic talk)
TeX bibliography database
Found it over here.
open knowledge
At the Open Text Book project.
stable isotope open access books
Or at least, currently open access.
found me some soil information
“Welcome to the Australian Soil Resource Information System.”
found while looking up milliequivalents
A useful dictionary of Units of Measurement, by Russ Rowlett. Something over a decade old, judging by the plaudits.
wikis for hydrology
It finally occurred to me to google for hydrology wiki. This turned up the FloodRiskNet catalogue of methods, which deals with methods for uncertainty analysis in flooding risk estimation, the Experimental Hydrology wiki, and the Distributed Hydrological Modelling wiki by Ricardo Rigon and his crew at the University of Trento.
And they even appear to be live. 
Scirus
Ran across Scirus while reading blogs; it’s a search engine for the quantitative sciences including parts of the Deep Web, with fairly glowing reviews. Built by Elsevier, and yet open and free. Cool, huh?
fresh from the Physical Sciences library
- TechXtra, which searches portions of the Deep Web for engineering, maths and computing
- Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology, an annotated directory of good resources on the Web for engineering, geography, the natural sciences, mathematics, and allied fields. Fairly solid, at least the hydrology and hydrogeology section is
Hat tip to the crew from PSE library at UQ.
The Lyell Collection
The Geological Society of London has put up the Lyell Collection, named after Charles Lyell, to celebrate its 200th anniversary. Lots of good stuff in there.
Proceedings of the European CSCW Conference
Have been released under a Creative Commons licence at the ECSCW site.
conceptual modelling quote of the day
“Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler.”
(Albert Einstein)