Archive for October, 2006

Chirality paper by Ghosh and Fischer

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Rowland’s Chiro-optical Spectroscopy and Chiral Discrimination group have published a PRL paper, “Chiral molecules split light.”

Update 11/2/06: Also see the Physical Review Focus article. 

Update 11/9/06: PhysicsWeb has a brief piece on the experiment.

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Research beyond Google

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Jimmy Atkinson of OEDb pointed me to his collection of lists that
document more than a hundred sources of information in the “invisible
web.”  Most are freely available sites.

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Article on accuracy of Wikipedia

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

“Can Wikipedia ever make the grade” examines the accuracy of the online
encyclopedia, having several academics evaluate articles in their area
of expertise.  (source; j’s scratchpad)

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