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Today I'll introduce you to a wonderfully simple piece of software that should free you from using Powerpoint or other outdated presentation software. It's called Sozi.
Over the next few weeks, I'll be presenting a digest of some essential software for research. As with all researchers, I have my biases. I hope that beyond that, there may be some pearls of usability for people wondering how to solve that problem. So, on to part 1: Firefox and it's extensions.
The scientific world has been rocked by some notable instances of allegedly falsified data recently; Andrew Wakefield, Marc Hauser, Phil Jones and others. These prominent researchers have suffered, some would say justifiably, public humiliation and engendered scepticism for their fields of research.