Lately in science, health and librarianship blogs…

• The Curious Cub reports that Darwin’s personal library – including his annotations – is being made available online by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The 330 most “heavily annotated” works are currently available with many more to follow.
• The NCI has rolled out The Cancer Imaging Archive. According to an NCI press release,  this collection “contains a large proportion of original, pre-surgical MRIs from cases that have been genomically characterized in TCGA.”
• Of Schemes and Memes, features two great posts on the web and learning in its best of weekly roundup. eResearch discusses The Science of the Web, “the largest human information construct in history” and highlights work from the recent 3rd International Conference on WebScience. While over at Bioscience eLearning, we are reminded to Push, don’t pull your elearners.
• CDC researchers found non-recommended HPV testing practices in a survey of US providers.
• Nature News says vaccine trial ethics violations in India may fuel anti-vaccination fears.
• And just for fun, check out the renderings at Beautiful Proteins.

Just some of this week’s excitement…

• Scientific American’s Observations blog says iCloud is intended to deliver content across devices
• Two new ebook readers make great strides according to David Pogue’s review in the NY Times: “e-book readers just took their first slimy steps out of the primordial soup”! Although last week Wired pointed out 5 Reasons Why eBooks Aren’t There Yet
• A post about the Library of Congress Twitter Archive one year after the announcement, from Audrey Watters on O’Reilly Radar. Watters also discusses stories about password security, face recognition technologies and the use of archival material in video game development here!
• Save the double-speed podcasts, nice efficiency tips from Changing Journalism for making the most of your iPhone

This week in the blog-o-verse:

• Pew has released a new report on Twitter use. Resource Shelf lists highlights including doubled use by adults aged 25-34 since late 2010
• National Academies Press has made all of their PDF format books free! Byte Size Biology and others are excited about thousands of free science books
• “Maria Pallante named register of copyrights” (via DigitalKoans)
• NER’eastah reports NLM has rolled out an iPad app for Turning the Pages, which allows users to read digitized portions of rare medical books and curatorial comments. Three books are currently available for the app.
• The Daily Scan summed up a literature review just published in JAMA finding “Highly cited biomarker studies tend to report larger effect estimates  for associations than subsequent meta-analyses”.
• Creative Commons videos are now on YouTube