Rowland Institute Library Blog http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib Just another Weblogs at Harvard Law School weblog Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:23:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Migration to new blog server http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/2007/03/27/hello-world/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/2007/03/27/hello-world/#comments Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:05:16 +0000 rihlib Supposed to be faster than the old.  So far it is.

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Juraj Topolancik and Frank Vollmer published a paper in Applied Physics Letters.

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Rowland’s Trapped Ions Group has a new paper on fluorescence
measurements of trapped gas-phase biomolecules.  (Harvard
affilates follow this link)

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The latest issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
contains a number of papers on trends in physics and mathematics.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/2006/11/06/emerging-frontiers-in-the-physical-sciences/feed/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Chirality paper by Ghosh and Fischer http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/2006/10/31/chirality-paper-by-ghosh-and-fischer/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/2006/10/31/chirality-paper-by-ghosh-and-fischer/#comments Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:05:20 +0000 rihlib http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/2006/10/31/chirality-paper-by-ghosh-and-fischer/

Rowland’s Chiro-optical Spectroscopy and Chiral Discrimination group have published a PRL paper, “Chiral molecules split light.”

Update 11/2/06: Also see the Physical Review Focus article. 

Update 11/9/06: PhysicsWeb has a brief piece on the experiment.

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Jimmy Atkinson of OEDb pointed me to his collection of lists that
document more than a hundred sources of information in the “invisible
web.”  Most are freely available sites.

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“Can Wikipedia ever make the grade” examines the accuracy of the online
encyclopedia, having several academics evaluate articles in their area
of expertise.  (source; j’s scratchpad)

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A Boston Globe article tells of several instances of women getting jobs through their blogs. (Source: Deborah Elizabeth Finn)

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The 27th New England Complex Fluids Workshop takes place tomorrow.  Rowland’s Zvonimir Dogic is one of the speakers. 

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According to a news story in the Scientist, many editors of BioMed
Central journals are dissatisfied with the publisher, irked
particularly about increasing author page charges.  (source: David
Osterbur)

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