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The Female Science Professor is doing a great series of posts about interviewing for faculty jobs.  See here , here , and here , with two mo...

Tonight in the State of the Union address, President Obama will supposedly propose a freeze on discretionary federal spending for the next t...

Looking at the arxiv this evening, I came across this paper , in which the authors demonstrate a silicon-based single-electron transistor th...

Motivated in part by this recent paper and ensuing conversation here , I thought it might be useful to say a few words about inelastic elec...

Gee, Gov. Perry, did you ever think that one reason Texas has a hard time recruiting and retaining highly educated workers and high tech com...

I was quite surprised to see this articl e in Science, talking about the much debated possible merger between Rice and Baylor College of Me...

I've been spending this week at the International Conference on Molecular Electronics , and it's been very interesting.  Topics have...

Happy New Year to my readers.  Posts will pick up again in 2010.  In the mean time, you might be amused by a couple of science-y gifts I got...

Some recent arxiv articles that I really should find the time to read in depth: arxiv:0809.3474 - Affleck, Quantum impurity problems in c...

The last kind of electrical noise I wanted to discuss is called 1/ f or "flicker" noise, and it's something of a special case...

I read this column on the back page of this month's APS News, and I think it hits a lot of the right notes, until this paragraph: Man...

While Johnson-Nyquist noise is an equilibrium phenomenon, shot noise is a nonequilibrium effect, only present when there is a net current b...

It's always interesting to read about your institution in the national media .  It's a pretty good article that captures both sides...

One type of electronic noise that is inescapable is Johnson-Nyquist noise.  Roughly a hundred years ago, physicists studying electricity not...

For a while now the fraction of condensed matter physicists that think about electronic transport measurements have been interested in noise...

They Might Be Giants has a new CD that my readers with kids might enjoy:  Science is Real .  Fun stuff.  This song has long been a favorite...

Whether this rumor turns out to be accurate or not, the technology used in the CDMS collaboration 's dark matter search is quite intere...

Well, my old friends at AIG now owe $25B less to the US government.  For those keeping score at home, that's about 4 National Science ...

I disagree with this comic , though I can never get my students or our facilities people to back my idea of converting the entire lab into u...

In the world of scientific peer review, I think that there are three kinds of referees:  those that help, those than hinder, and those that ...