Huffington Post has a short and interesting post by Nature editor Noah Gray on the art and benefits of deciphering scientific abstracts.

…with the ability to regularly recognize key scientific components from an abstract, the savvy reader will be in a position to better-police that other omnipresent science information filter, the one that sometimes operates with mixed efficiency: mainstream media.

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