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ChemSpider Talk at Drexel Nov 12 2008
Antony Williams is giving a talk on ChemSpider at Drexel University at 2:00 PM Wednesday November 12, 2008. (Disque 109, corner of 32nd and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia). Even if you attended his
From ONS to Peer Review: our JoVE Article is Published
Our article "Optimization of the Ugi Reaction Using Parallel Synthesis and Automated Liquid Handling" is now published on the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). I am very pleased with this...
Social Values and Shopping Merge Through 'World of Good'
Keep thinking about ways to help people economically. It's not just about chemistry. At the same time, when you watch this, consider ways in which chemistry is involved in what people like this are doing. Often, people are completely un...
EPA Denies Appeal for New Coal-Fired Power Plant
My favorite quote:The 69-page decision described the Bush administration’s arguments as “weak,” “questionable,” “not sustainable,” and “not sufficient,” and rebuked EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson for failing to issue...
I got nothin’
Really, I don’t have anything clever to say. I’m getting sort of slack at this blogging thing and I think that’s rather alright. I find that I have lost a lot of interest in the politics of science and, really, my research interests ...
Scientific American: Top 25 Science Stories of 2007
Top 25 Science Stories of 2007. ‘A year of discoveries, close calls, tragedies and triumphs in review.’This is a post from Science Quick Picks, a blog with quick links to the world of Science.Scientific American: Top 25 Science Stories of 2007...
Open Access in 2007 According to Peter Suber
Open Access in 2007 by Peter Suber on SPARC Open Access Newsletter, issue 117, January 2008. From the introduction: “The irrepressible progress of the open access movement means that every new year is richer than the last. At some point the thicket...
International Year of Planet Earth
International Year of Planet Earth. ‘The International Year of Planet Earth aims to ensure greater and more effective use by society of the knowledge accumulated by the world’s 400,000 Earth scientists. The Year’s ultimate goal of helping to bui...
Journal Citation Impact Forum
Thomson Scientific Launches Journal Citation Forum Dedicated to Discussion About Citation-Based Research Evaluation: From H-index to Impact Factor, Citation Impact Forum Hosts Expert Commentary and Scholarly Discussion About Citation-based Research Evalua...
All About Richard Feynman
Feynman Online. ‘This web site is dedicated to Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988), scientist, teacher, raconteur, and musician. He assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, expanded the understanding of quantum electrodynamics, translated Mayan h...
Touch the Invisible Sky: NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille
NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers. ‘At a ceremony today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.Touch th...
Scientific American on Science 2.0: An Experiment
Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk?: Wikis, blogs and other collaborative web technologies could usher in a new era of science. Or not.‘Welcome to a Scientific American experiment in “networked journalism,” in which readers—you...
On the Road to an Antitumor Vaccine
Polymeric Nanoparticles for Tumor Vaccines. ‘The quest for an effective antitumor vaccine has received a boost from the results of work aimed at developing a nanoparticle that delivers tumor antigens to the immune system cells that trigger antibody ...
Rules of Thumb Database
Rules of Thumb.Org. ‘A rule of thumb is a homemade recipe for making a guess. It is an easy-to-remember guide that falls somewhere between a mathematical formula and a shot in the dark. A farmer, for instance, knows to plant his corn when oak leav...
TEAM 0.5: The World’s Most Powerful Microscope
Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World’s Best Microscope. ‘TEAM 0.5, the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope capable of producing images with half angstrom resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of ...
Time on Cancer
Time: Cancer. ‘While more people die of heart disease in the U.S. than cancer, cancer is still one of the most feared diagnoses a person can receive. There are good reasons for this. Cancer’s ability to cause pain is notorious and some of the ...
Telegraph: Top Ten Greatest Experiments
Top Ten Greatest Experiments. ‘George Johnson celebrates the great thinkers whose home-brewed experiments transformed our world: A few years ago, while reading stories about superstrings vibrating in 10 dimensions or quantum computers solving proble...
Open Access Directory (OAD)
Press Release: Peter Suber and Robin Peek have launched the Open Access Directory (OAD), a wiki where the open access community can create and maintain simple factual lists about open access to science and scholarship. Suber, a Research Professor of Philo...
The 2008 Ig Nobel Prize Winners List
Complete list of 2008 Ig Nobel Prize winners:NUTRITION PRIZEMassimiliano Zampini of the University of Trento, Italy and Charles Spence of Oxford University, UK, for electronically modifying the sound of a potato chip to make the person chewing the chip be...
