By Kevin Lindstrom on September 12, 2008
We’ve got ebooks on almost any topic under the sun and pdf’s are a lot lighter to carry than paper. You want books on how to write code in Python or how to fix your new laptop running Microsoft Vista? Have a look at the Books 24X7 IT Collection. Trying find some good stuff on [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on September 10, 2008
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14699 The article discusses the experiments, provides a video and the images from the Collider that started to operate TODAY! ** Photo by µµ
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By Kevin Lindstrom on August 29, 2008
PRO/UAW, the union that tried and failed in 2006 to organize the postdocs on the 10 University of California (UC) campuses, has received official notification that it succeeded on its second try. On 19 August, the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) faxed a letter to the organizers stating that the union, known formally as [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on August 27, 2008
Here is the NYT article from August 10, 2008 that discusses water-recycling plants. An interesting lunch-time read. We have hundreds of books on the topic, not to mention ebooks or electronic databases… Check out the following two links: 1. Water–Purification (almost 200 books) 2. Sewage–Purification. (almost 200 books) Moreover, we have a couple of online [...]
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By Kevin Lindstrom on August 14, 2008
New CMA Report Warns Poor Air Quality Killing Canadians OTTAWA, August 13, 2008 – The Canadian Medical Association released staggering new data today showing that this year alone as many as 21,000 Canadians will die prematurely from the effects of air pollution. While most of those deaths will be due to chronic exposure over a [...]
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By Kevin Lindstrom on August 8, 2008
In addition to the pure and applied research published in scientific journals and conferences, UBC researchers also produce a large number of patents. Dr. Tom Troczynski’s Biomaterials Group is involved with calcium phosphate / hydroxyapatite coatings, composites and cements. This research is of major importance for bone implants and hip replacement surgery. Two recent patents [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on July 11, 2008
On 4 July 2008 Science had an editorial about peer-review process. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5885/15 Written by the Science editors, including Bruce Alberts – the Editor-in-Chief, it is indeed an interesting read! Have a look.. ** Photo by selva
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By Eugene Barsky on July 3, 2008
On June 15, 2008 Thomson Reuters ISI has published a short report about Canadian Science. Canada’s world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years is expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Reuters ISI database. Also, Canada’s relative citation impact compared to the world [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on June 25, 2008
Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately complicated apparatus that performs a very simple task in very indirect and convoluted fashion. Many engineering schools have Rube Goldberg machine contests – see Purdue University site or University of Wisconsin Milwaukee site I particularly like this Honda ad below that uses the Rube Goldberg machine principle ** Thanks [...]
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By Kevin Lindstrom on May 30, 2008
New types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community AT ONE POINT in his career, Nobel Laureate Sir Harold W. Kroto was the second most highly cited chemist in Britain—topped only by the University of Southampton’s Martin Fleischmann, one of the proponents of cold fusion. Kroto, who codiscovered C60 and is currently [...]
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