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A Theory about Questions in Paper Titles

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

I have this hypothesis about scientific papers: If the title of the paper contains a question, the paper answers the question with a “no”. My own examples: Is the Ewald summation still necessary? Can imaginary frequency instantaneous normal modes predict … Continue reading →

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Sally Forth and Me…

Posted on August 10, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

About these comics: Ces Marciuliano (the writer of Sally Forth) and I shared adjoining dorm rooms when we were undergrads. He’s been dropping his friends’ names in his strips since he took over the gig from Greg Howard, and for … Continue reading →

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Fun with Bessel Functions

Posted on July 26, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

Almost everyone has seen that wonderful first picture of a “Quantum Corral” from the now-famous paper by Crommie, Lutz and Eigler (Confinement of electrons to quantum corrals on a metal surface. Science 262, 218-220 (1993)). The surface states of the … Continue reading →

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Dance Like A Monkey!

Posted on July 22, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

Holy Cow. The legendary punk rock group, The New York Dolls, are back! And they recently went back into the studio to make a new album called One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This. On this album … Continue reading →

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So….

Posted on June 27, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

So, imagine that there’s this odd verbal tic of most scientists in the US. They like to start sentences and paragraphs with the word “so” even if they aren’t drawing conclusions from discussions that went before. Back in January, The … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Fun in Home Experiments?

Posted on May 30, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

Wired magazine has an article called “Don’t Try This at Home” which starts by describing a recent CPSC raid on the house of the family that runs United Nuclear. We’ve mentioned UnitedNuclear before. They’re one of the few companies still … Continue reading →

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Adium X

Posted on March 20, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

A brief break from the ongoing discussion to point out Adium X, which is an open source IM tool for Mac OS X. The cool thing about it is that if you happen to have the OS X Equation Service … Continue reading →

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Freakishly good rant involving monkey urine

Posted on March 10, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

I won’t even post a summary. Just read Evil Monkey’s inspired rant over at NEUROTOPIA. [tags]science, graduate school[/tags]

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Best comic ever

Posted on March 1, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

Today’s Non Sequitir hits the nail on the head.

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Pandora & The Music Genome Project

Posted on February 10, 2006 by Dan Gezelter

This isn’t directly related to Science or Software (the topics that usually occupy my writing here at OpenScience), but Pandora.com is changing how I listen to music. The Pandora site claims to be powered by something called The Music Genome … Continue reading →

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