Sunday, January 30, 2011

The Anti-Social Network

http://www.slate.com/id/2282620/

By helping other people look happy, Facebook is making us sad.

There are countless ways to make yourself feel lousy. Here's one more, according to research out of Stanford: Assume you're alone in your unhappiness.

"Misery Has More Company Than People Think," a paper in the January issue of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, draws on a series of studies examining how college students evaluate moods, both their own and those of their peers...

Map of scientific collaboration between researchers

http://flowingdata.com/2011/01/27/map-of-scientific-collaboration-between-researchers/

In the spirit of the well-circulated Facebook friendship map by Paul Butler, research analyst Olivier Beauchesne at Science-Metrix examines scientific collaboration around the world from 2005 to 2009: