Bananas and Slugs – the long tail of science

Here on Nature Network, several bloggers have lamented the difficulty in keeping up with the literature in their field.

BananaSLUG adds even more of a challenge!

By throwing a random word into your Google search string, BananaSlug will return hits that would otherwise be buried several pages into the results.

BananaSlug “was designed to promote serendipitous surfing”. I am not sure it does that – surely serendipity is not found by looking for it – but this is a fun gadget.

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