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Author Archives: Dan Gezelter
Set in Stone
Our brand new science building has a long hallway with clerestory windows and wonderful overlooks of the hallway from the labs on the upper floors. The terrazzo floor, however, needs some decoration, so each of the three departments involved in … Continue reading
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Closed-source Apples?
One of our favorite new food finds is the wonderfully genetically-engineered variety of apple called the honeycrisp. Honeycrisps are crisp, sweet, slightly acidic, and very aromatic. They are about as close as you can come to a perfect apple, and … Continue reading
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Periodic Tales from the BBC
The BBC is doing a wonderful radio series on the periodic table called Periodic Tales. So far only ten elements have been profiled (He, Ag, Co, Se, O, As, Hg, I, Ni), but it looks like a great way to … Continue reading
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Thoughtful cardinals, ID-iots in the Indiana Legislature
Two news items of some concern to those of us teaching science at Notre Dame: First, some depressing news from the Indy Star: GOP lawmakers want schools to teach ‘intelligent design’. And Hoosiers are off on a race to the … Continue reading
Blog Blinking Statistics
After spending last week fighting with commercial software and then re-writing an entire computational lab around bugs in said software, I noticed something odd about my blog posting: My blinking statistics are starting to look like they have a power … Continue reading
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Richard Smalley R.I.P.
Nobel Laureate and Rice University professor Richard Smalley has died at the age of 62. Smalley is best known for his discovery of buckyballs. He’s also known for his contribution to this now-famous Chemical & Engineering News nanotechnology debate with … Continue reading
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The Worst Jobs in Science
Do you have one of The Worst Jobs in Science? Popular science has ranked them this year. Here’s the list: Orangutan-Pee collector NASA Ballerina Do-Gooder Semen Washer Volcanologist Nuclear-Weapons Scientist Extremophile Excavator Kansas Biology Teacher Manure Inspector Human Lab Rat … Continue reading
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Literature-Based Generation of Hypotheses…
I’m not entirely sure what this article is about, but the start of the title sounds very intriguing. There are times when I think that some paper I’ve just reviewed was written by a perl script, using text cut-and-pasted (or … Continue reading
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Online Unit Converter
We just found UnitConversion.org, an online unit converter with auto-complete and a pretty large database of odd units. It looks like a a great tool, although it is inexplicably lacking the Debye (which we were trying to convert to electron … Continue reading
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