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 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 Eugene Barsky on July 31, 2008
The New York Times has an article today about an ancient Greek technology known as the Antikythera Mechanism A very interesting read indeed – Discovering How Greeks Computed in 100 B.C. The NYT article cites a letter published in Nature today – Freeth, T; Alexander, J, Steele, JM, Bitsakis, Y (July 31, 2008). “Calendars with [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on July 21, 2008
The 2007 Canadian Internet Use Survey was released on June 12th. Interesting findings include: “Almost three-quarters (73%), or 19.2 million Canadians aged 16 and older, went online for personal reasons during the 12 months prior to the survey. This was up from just over two-thirds (68%) in 2005 when the survey was last conducted. For [...]
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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 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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By Eugene Barsky on April 30, 2008
“Canada at a glance” presents the current Canadian demographic, education, health, justice, housing, income, labour market, economic, travel, financial, and foreign trade statistics. This booklet also includes important international comparisons, so that readers can see how Canada stacks up against its neighbours. Updated yearly, Canada at a glance is a very useful reference for those [...]
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