links for 2008-03-07

"well written, thorough, timely referee reports almost always improve the quality of scientific papers"

"[A]fter seven years of Bush, to ask whether I'd "prefer" Hillary or Obama is like asking a drowning person surrounded by sharks which of two lifeboats he prefers to be rescued by (and adding, in case it's helpful, that one lifeboat is rowed by a

"These are the most stringent constraints on non-Newtonian forces to date at this length scale," says Geraci, who is currently based at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder."

"[A] team of physicists at the California Institute of Technology led by Jeff Kimble has [worked out] a way to store two entangled photon states in separate regions of an extremely cold gas of caesium atoms."