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Friday Science Spree 09/30/11
Submitted by on September 30, 2011 – 1:16 pm | No Comment

As America’s Top Atom Smasher Closes, Fermilab Searches for New Relevance
How Climate Change Could Hurt Yellowstone National Park
Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals – unless waiver granted
Is Thorium the …

Friday Science Spree 09/23/11
Submitted by on September 23, 2011 – 10:22 am | No Comment

UC Santa Cruz Science Notes 2011 via ksjtracker
Gamers solve retrovirus structure via slashdot
Hydrogen production using microbial reverse-electrodialysis electrolysis cells via are technica
Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces via Not Exactly Rocket Science
History of the Tevatron, which is …

Friday Science Spree 09/16/11
Submitted by on September 16, 2011 – 5:29 pm | No Comment

Climate Quitters: Sorry You Lose
Efficient Excited Energy Transfer Reaction in Clay/Porphyrin Complex toward an Artificial Light-Harvesting System via Next Big Future
Trusting Experts and Why rejecting expertise has become a campaign strategy
Why natural gas may hardly …

Friday Science Spree 09/09/11
Submitted by on September 9, 2011 – 1:24 pm | No Comment

Directly comparing Fukushima to Chernobyl via slashdot
Views Differ on Shape of Earth, Climate Edition & Reckonings; Bait and Switch via Daring Fireball
New Superconductor Wires Could Give Renewable Energy More Charge via slashdot
Simplified model in recent …

Friday Science Spree 09/02/11
Submitted by on September 2, 2011 – 8:48 am | No Comment

Lots of blather: Was Irene a global warming storm? (wrong question. Answer is yes but it’s still meaningless)
A Mix of spider silk, Goats milk and human skin can stop a reduced speed 22 caliber bullet …

Chemical Information?
Submitted by on August 30, 2011 – 3:41 pm | No Comment

“A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.”
— Frank H. Westheimer
A wealth of information exists outside of Google, although both Google and Google Scholar are powerful tools. How …

Friday Science Spree 08/27/10
Submitted by on August 27, 2010 – 5:09 pm | No Comment

Discussion of the BP oil plume in context with a New York Times article and a Science Magazine research paper concerning Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon – See also Ars, the Knight Science …

Friday Science Spree 02/05/10
Submitted by on February 5, 2010 – 4:42 pm | No Comment

Complex biological networks in leaves via wired
Energy-harvesting rubber sheets could power pacemakers, mobile phones via next big future
Fuel from plant biomass via C&EN
Hubble detects mysterious X-shaped debris pattern via gizmodo
Study linking autism to vaccine retracted …

It’s about time to…
Submitted by on February 2, 2010 – 1:07 am | No Comment
It’s about time to…

It’s about time to throw some credibility to fans of the 2012 apocalypse theory. There is a lot of talk of ancient Mayan calendars, interstellar collisions, and terrestrial polar shifts and while there is …

Friday Science Spree 01/29/10
Submitted by on January 29, 2010 – 10:20 am | No Comment

Generation of functional blood vessels from stem cells via Next Big Future and Nature
Altered microbe makes biofuel – naturenews
Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design – Science
FDA Raises Flag On Bisphenol A – C&EN
The Neural …

Friday Science Spree 01/22/10
Submitted by on January 21, 2010 – 10:42 pm | No Comment

UVa engineers find significant environmental impacts with algae-based biofuel via Slashdot
Using acid/base chemistry to solve a maze via Nature
Lab accident under investigation
11-year-old’s science project leads to school evacuation via Techdirt via Slashdot
Fixing carbon dioxide as …

Controversial Fat Injections to Improve Breast Reconstruction. Is Beauty Worth the Risks?
Submitted by on October 27, 2009 – 3:00 pm | 2 Comments
Controversial Fat Injections to Improve Breast Reconstruction. Is Beauty Worth the Risks?

One’s breast shape may not always be as perfect as those seen in the Victoria Secret catalogue; however, when you’re paying $10,000.00 for them, they better come pretty darn close. Many doctors are toying with …

Can traveling on airlines with liquids soon be possible?
Submitted by on October 26, 2009 – 8:37 pm | 4 Comments
Can traveling on airlines with liquids soon be possible?

Depending on how frequently you travel, you may or may not have experienced the many inconveniences of going through airport security. Considering that I travel approximately 2200 miles to get to Villanova, I fall into …

Greenhouse gases and arctic methane hydrate
Submitted by on October 22, 2009 – 4:31 pm | 4 Comments
Greenhouse gases and arctic methane hydrate

With all the focus on global warming and greenhouse gases the question becomes how much of it has been caused by humans? NOAA researchers have discovered a large source of methane in the Arctic Ocean …

The second law isn’t just slowly killing you in PChem, but slowly killing the universe…
Submitted by on October 18, 2009 – 5:58 pm | 3 Comments
The second law isn’t just slowly killing you in PChem, but slowly killing the universe…

The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of the universe is increasing. Black holes contribute to the entropy of the universe by breaking down matter into more disordered states. Previous studies on a …

Lists of some of my science related feeds… [updated]
Submitted by on August 29, 2009 – 1:14 pm | No Comment

Chemistry journals I ‘try’ to keep up with (every two weeks or monthly):

Accounts of Chemical Research | RSS
Crystal Growth & Design | RSS
Inorganic Chemistry | RSS
Chemical Society Reviews | RSS
Dalton Transactions | RSS
Angewandte Chemie | …

Duplicating nature in the lab
Submitted by on February 1, 2009 – 2:06 pm | No Comment

If you need further justification for research, check out this piece over at wired…

But although nature can make a remarkably wide variety of chemicals — far more than the best molecule-making robots — it does …

The “war on science” is over. Now what?
Submitted by on January 29, 2009 – 10:36 am | One Comment

A nice piece at Slate about what’s next.

Scientists, with the support of the administration, should now be setting out to win over the hearts and minds of the American public, creating a stronger edifice of …