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Open Access File of the Day on Wikimedia Commons: Qualia of sound.jpg
All of the files presented so far in the Open Access File of the Day on Wikimedia Commons series have been reused only for display. Today’s is an example for remixing, which is another of the freedoms...
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De pleurobranchaea novo molluscorum genere – who was Stephan Friedrich Leue?
“Few families have had an impact on medicine to equal that of the Meckel family.” Such starts the abstract of a paper published last year in the subscription-based journal Neurosurgery. One of the...
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Alu elements in our genomes
Today’s Open Access File of the Day shows the chromosomes in a lymphocyte of a woman. Red marks DNA in general, green gene-rich regions therein that are known as Alu elements. Cropped from the...
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Anatomy of the human ear – editable version
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is editable. It is the first in this series with that property. The originally published figure was composite and provided as a TIFF, but User:Inductiveload went the...
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Reuse increases discoverability – try an image search for “Sorghum”
When I recently did an image search, I was not surprised to see files from Wikimedia Commons pop up on top of the ca. 600k results, but noticed with pleasure that the first image originated from an...
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Stare at me for ten seconds, then switch to the (F)
Today’s Open Access File of the Day is the first optical illusion in the series, and so it somewhat fits that the image is labeled “Fig. 1″, albeit it is only the second image appearing in the article....
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Greetings from the beech at Mt. Ruapehu
Today’s Open Access File of the Day provides and impression from field work on the beech Nothofagus that grows on the slopes of Mt. Ruapehu in New Zealand. Fig.1 of the synopsis (presumably by Liza...
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Miniature open-access frogs taking over?
Today’s Open Access File of the Day really is a file of the day, i.e. of January 12, 2012: published as part of the taxonomic description of a new species yesterday, it is currently featured on the...
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How would you illustrate the difference between humans and chimps?
A paper in PLoS Biology came out in 2005 with the following abstract: Since the divergence of humans and chimpanzees about 5 million years ago, these species have undergone a remarkable evolution with...
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Gough Island – as remote as it gets on the planet
Few places on our planet are as remote as Gough Island in the Southern Atlantic, yet even there, invasive species are not uncommon, as pointed out in a feature article in PLoS Biology, from which...
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