Royal Society (UK) has announced that it is opening its archives free for public access. Great news for science nerds and historians (and sociologists and cultural anthropologists…). These archives include the first ever peer reviewed scientific paper, Treasures in … Continue reading
Science advances rapidly, technology leaps, however scientific journals can not keep pace with them. Frontiers in Bioscience journal has the following system requirements to browse the journal: The minimum system requirements for browsing the journal and the virtual library are … Continue reading
Though a bit late, this one is too good to miss; The Onion reports on this years Nobel Prize announcement. A special mention is about the Chemistry Prize: triumphant fans of the 2011 laureates mobbing Stockholm streets last week, breaking … Continue reading
Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report (Download PDF) lists Ivy League universities in Canada. With University of Toronto topping the list, there are totally 5 universities (out of the total from Southern Ontario region : U of Toronto, Queens, Western … Continue reading
There is an ongoing deal $39 for a 7-Colors Changing Shower Head With LED Light from ZoomaFX (value $89) Online Deal – Tax included I believe this is very timely as there is an emerging need for energy efficiency in Color … Continue reading
Herbert Aaron Hauptman, the mathematician who won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his outstanding contribution to X-ray Crystallography passed away. Hauptman was the first to apply rigours mathematical methods for crystal structure determination with X-ray Diffraction (XRD). The Hauptman-Karle method, popularly known as The Direct Method in XRD, took the guess work out of the X-ray analysis and speed up the structure determination of complex proteins, hormones, antibiotics, vitamins and geological minerals. Continue reading
I am starting to worry that Ubuntu is increasingly messing up things and will hate to see Canonical going down the path. In my Ubuntu Server (11.10 Oneiric Ocelot), ethernet broke down as I updated the Unity interface. The DNS … Continue reading
My department, the Institute for Optical Science at University of Toronto is hosting an exhibit of holograms made by our students in the holography course, run jointly by the Physics Department and the Institute for Optical Sciences. In this course, … Continue reading
Sumedh Mungee writes in NY Times – what could easily pass as an honest introspection – Why I Left India (Again). He itemizes several attempts by modern India to desensitize him and goes on to explain how he triumphed … Continue reading
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