nanoscale views

Thanks to Tom for having a link on his page to this . Too true! This is also brilliant. Good to have a laugh, despite the passing of Ge...

I wasn't going to even mention the idea of a Singularity , but then the IEEE made a point of dedicating an issue of their magazine to t...

My university is in the design phase on a new physics building. This is exciting - first, it's a rare opportunity to design new lab spa...

Posting from the scenic Newark International Airport.... I just finished attending the 2008 international workshop, ESPMI-08 - Electronic S...

So, if crude oil futures cost at least $126/42 gallon barrel these days, doesn't that imply that the raw starting material for gasoline ...

Remember my discussion of plagiarism? Remember how a couple of readers didn't seem to thing that this was necessarily that big a deal, ...

Summer writing and travel are eating my blogging time a bit, and I've also agreed to write the occasional nano-related blurb for the ACS...

Once again (and it seems like this happens every couple of years ) someone is claiming "success" in a cold fusion experiment. Ba...

Two papers from the past week that caught my eye.... arxiv:0805.3309 - Bunch et al ., Impermeable atomic membranes from graphene sheets Thi...

I want to alert faculty colleagues to a website of which they need to be aware if they teach, particularly undergraduates. I won't link...

There's no question that one of these would be useful to have in the lab. Check out the whole catalog of their products - fun for all ...

A couple of interesting papers, two about graphene and one about a weird fluid mechanics effect. arxiv:0805.1830 - Bolotin et al ., Tempera...

In contrast to the previous post, there have been some fun parts of the job lately. Today was commencement, which is always amusing - I get...

Amazingly, there are graduate-level students out there who do not understand this simple, basic fact. When you're writing a scholastic ...

I'm a member of the AAAS , in part because I support their various efforts, and in part because I like my subscription to Science . How...

I saw two things in Science this week that I found quite interesting. First was a mention in Editor's Choice of this paper from my ol...

Well, it's that time of the year again. Lots of blogging ( here , here , here , here ) about advice to tenure-track faculty (and other...

First, to the readers of this blog, thanks for the recent trend of posting informative links in the comments. I think that this really adds...

Like many of my colleagues, I review lots of grant proposals. Recently I was asked to review one for the Department of Energy, and when I s...

I saw some very good talks this week. First up was a physics colloquium by Stuart Parkin from IBM Almaden. In some very real sense, you...