Archive for April, 2004

ACS launches nanotechnology news site

Thursday, April 15th, 2004

the American Chemical Society recently launched Nanofocus, a companion
site to Chemical & Engineering News.  Evidently it will deal
with the industry and science of all things nano.  It’s got an RSS
feed to boot.  (Source: Small times)

he didn’t shirk his responsibilit

Thursday, April 15th, 2004

Do you suppose they are situationists??(Source; Chris Stokes)

Progress for postdocs?

Wednesday, April 14th, 2004

File sharing the news to thwart censorship

Tuesday, April 13th, 2004

A BBC News column argues for file sharing news to get around
censorship.  Peter Suber pointed to this and mentioned, however,
that it would make getting usage data, among other things,
difficult.  Interesting concept, at any rate. (Sources: Edupage,
Open Access News)

Aggregation of Sun Microsystems’ employee weblogs

Monday, April 12th, 2004

A page aggregates public weblogs of Sun employees… (source: Library Stuff)

International Space Station gravity experiments

Monday, April 12th, 2004

“Evicting Einstein”: ”
A new concept for an experiment to test the predictions of Einstein’s
relativity more precisely than ever before is being developed by scientists
at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Their mission, which effectively
uses our solar system as a giant laboratory, would help narrow the
field of vying theories and bring us one step closer to the next revolution
in physics.” (Source: Lockergnome Bytes)

About Google mail

Monday, April 12th, 2004

CNet’s Declan McCullagh takes a close look at what Google’s new mail
service offers (evidently it’s not just an April Fool’s joke) and
suggests alternatives more respectful of user privacy.

What is nanotechnology?

Monday, April 12th, 2004

A New York Times article tries to document and sort out marketing and
hype from research and applications with actual potential. 
(Source: Science in the News)

Model of how a MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer works

Monday, April 12th, 2004

Coverage of NAS colloquium on degrees of separation in science

Thursday, April 8th, 2004

A recent NAS colloquium on mapping domains in science has gotten a lot
of press.  A collection of papers show how supposedly disparate
disciplines can be related through citations and try to model some of
these connections through database searching and linking. 
(Sources: Open Access News, Library Link of the Day, Boing Boing, LIS
News)