nanoscale views

A blog about condensed matter and nanoscale physics. Why should high energy and astro folks have all the fun?

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Least action and non-classical paths

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Here's a funky piece of physics discovered in condensed matter research that deserves broader attention because it is so weird . So, the...
Monday, August 08, 2005

Intelligent design

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Thank goodness the President doesn't really have much to do with setting educational practices in this country. From the transcript of ...
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Friday, July 22, 2005

The Templeton Foundation

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There was an interesting story this morning on NPR about the Templeton Foundation and their efforts to fund physics research. The Templet...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Science and today's politics

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Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, has decided to threaten NSF-funded scientists who authored ...
Friday, July 08, 2005

Interesting recent papers....

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Here are a couple of interesting papers I've seen in the last week or so: Doh et al., Tunable supercurrent through semiconductor nanowi...
Sunday, June 26, 2005

People who annoy me.

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You know what really ticks me off? People with no technical background who have nonetheless become nanoscience and nanotechnology "ta...
Thursday, June 23, 2005

"More" really is different.

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Condensed matter physics gets a bum rap sometimes. Murray Gell-Mann referred to it as "squalid state" physics. Wolfgang Pauli ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

A condensed matter physicist blog: why not?

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I was googling around for something the other day, and came upon physcomments.org , a website that purports to be the home of "scholarl...
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Douglas Natelson
I am a physics professor at Rice University. My group uses nanoscale tools to address open questions in condensed matter physics, the study of the remarkable emergent properties of materials. Views expressed here are my own; they do not represent the views of my employer or any other entity.
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