http://blog.jaspsplace.co.uk/2006/11/17/why-i-love-wikipedia/ Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:58:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://blog.jaspsplace.co.uk/2006/11/17/why-i-love-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-549 Why GO sucks « Suicyte Notes Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:24:54 +0000 http://blog.jaspsplace.co.uk/2006/11/17/why-i-love-wikipedia/#comment-549 [...] Jun 24th, 2007 by suicyte Please excuse the rude title of this post – it is crafted after a number of recent blog postings on the shortcomings of Wikipedia. I for myself have been a very late adaptor of wikipedia and had never expected much from this resource – whenever I am using it now, I am pleasantly surprised how useful it is, even for most scientific topics. Obviously, you cannot believe everything you find in Wikipedia, and I am quite concerned about the growing number of young students,  who apparently learn biochemistry from Wikipedia rather than from textbooks – this is certainly not the way to go. However, for a quick look-up of the formula of orlistat (tetrahydrolipstatin, “alli“) and stuff like that, Wikipedia is much more convenient than any other resource I know of. And, as has been said  before, nothing beats Wikipedia if you want to know the difference between a ‘mad scientist’ and an ‘evil genius’. [...]

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