personal and professional notes from a chemistry graduate student
Oct 25th 2006nerd alert
After I defended my dissertation in May, there was a gap of a couple months before starting my postdoc down the hall. This was a bit of a surprise when “I’ve already got funding” turned — of course — into “I just need to apply for one more grant…” And my landlady, nice [...]
Oct 20th 2006nerd alert
And the winner for most amusing article in this month’s issue of Applied Spectroscopy — a journal not generally noted for its humor value — is undoubtedly
“Fluorescence Characteristics of Wholesome and Unwholesome Chicken Carcasses”, by Moon S. Kim et al.
which includes the surprising observation that “Chickens with infectious conditions (to humans) exist at the time [...]
Oct 18th 2006nerd alert
Human Species ‘May Split in Two’, says Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics.
On the one hand, this is nothing new — as the BBC article mentions this was “predicted” decades ago in “The Time Machine”.
On the other hand, this is nothing new — once again, evolutionary theory posits the idea of a [...]
Oct 16th 2006nerd alert
Not a lot going on at work that I can really report on, not much happening away from work either. So this week’s (month’s?) post will simply be a link to a very interesting (and not too detailed) article on “augmented” virtual environments — not just “virtual reality”, but “virtual reality” with additional information [...]