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WIMPy Physics.

Some of you may have heard in the news recently about a possible detection of the particles that may make up dark matter: Detectors in the mine, part of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search experiment, were tripped recently by what might be weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs. WIMPs are among the most popular candidates for dark matter, the invisible material that scientists think makes up more than 80 percent of the mass in the universe. Recently detectors in the mine recorded two hits with "characteristics consistent with those expected from WIMPs," according to a statement posted…

Zen and the Art of Dracaena Growing

Sometimes I see sad-looking plants on clearance, buy them, and try to heal them.  This activity provides me with a gratification that is similar to that which comes from healing sad-looking people, but without the tribulations that occur if it does not work as well as we had hoped. I even have some of these plants in my office (although none of the worse cases go there).  At stressful times, I may go and look at the parts of the plants that are growing well: apical meristems, leaf primodia, and axillary buds -- or green shoots, in the vernacular of our time.   I just look at them.  I don't…

Is suicide bombing a means of population control?

I was struck by an NPR story this morning where they talked to a pathologist in Afghanistan. He conducts the autopsies on the remains of suicide bombers there. The doctor argues that a great many of them had mental or physical disabilities: Dr. Yusuf Yadgari, a forensics instructor at Kabul Medical University, says 60% of the bombers they've examined had a physical ailment or disability. When you factor in mental problems, Yadgari says the number grows to include more than 80% of all suicide attackers in Afghanistan. He says these "outcasts" may become suicide bombers because it's a way to…

Casual Fridays: When do you wear your glasses?

We received quite a few complaints about last week's Casual Fridays study, most of them centered around our scientifically inaccurate eye exam. In our defense, the Snellen chart is only designed to be a rough measure of visual acuity. General practitioners use it as a first-pass to determine if patients should be referred to eye doctors or optometrists, who always use additional tests beyond the Snellen chart to determine prescriptions. We're not prescribing eyeglasses, just trying to get a rough sense of respondents' vision. We thought giving a simple test would be easier than asking folks…

Ask a Science Blogger: what should I pack for the collapse of civilization?

Civilization's imminent collapse is upon us. What's in your survival pack? There are many ways that civilization could collapse, so let me put my assumptions on the table: I'm considering a world where the electrical grid, phone and internet communications, and running water and waste water treatment systems are no longer operative. For sure you can't drive to the store for a loaf of bread because the stores will have been long since looted and the gas stations have no more gas. I am not assuming sea levels rising dozens of feet all at once (since that will put me and mine well…

A myth memorialized (a.k.a. "Simpsonwood Remembered")

Here is the myth of Simpsonwood being memorialized on the seventh anniversary of the meeting where, if you believe the mercury militia, the CDC, in cahoots with big pharma, tried to suppress the "truth" that thimerosal in vaccines causes autism. it is a myth that was popularized by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s misinformation-laden Salon.com article two years ago that trotted out every pseudoscientific and fallacious argument claiming that vaccines, specifically the mercury in the thimerosal preservative used in vaccines, causes autism. Here are some commentaries that reveal the myth for what it…

Normal-people problems

We're not supposed to pick favorites among our patients, but I have one. We'll call her Brenda. Brenda heard about our clinic through a friend of hers, a guy she used to smoke crack with. She'd been off drugs and booze for almost a year when she came to see me. Now that she was sober, she said, she realized she had "normal-people problems"--joint pain, high blood pressure, obesity--and needed a normal-person doctor. She had anything but a normal-person mouth, however, and from the moment I met her, said anything she wanted to, any time she wanted. She never held back the many, many things…

Retro Retro: The dangerous posts

Merry Christmas! OK, now that I've got you smiling and thinking of Santa and Elves and Snow flakes, Sugar Plum Fairies (hey, sugar, are you reading this?) and dancing gingerbread boys, let's look at some of the more dangerous yet popular items from this blog's past. Item 1: It is OK to be an atheist, but not an uppity atheist When you get a chance (but not right now, only when you have absolutely nothing whatsoever else to do) have a look at Matt Nisbet's latest thinly veiled attack on PZ myers*. It is the usual crap. Atheists are not allowed to express annoyance, disgust, or anger, or to…

Evan Almighty review

When God (Morgan Freeman) approaches Evan Baxter (Steve Carrell) about becoming Noah, it requires some lifestyle changes. Baxter, a news anchor from Bruce Almighty who has become a congressman, is compelled to grows a bushy white beard, discovers an appreciation for the brown robes favored by Charlton Heston's Moses, and suddenly has a hankering for another of Moses' favorites – unleavened bread. His wife obliges by offering pita, and since neither the Baxters, the director nor the audience realize that pita is leavened, everyone is happy. Anyone looking for a retelling of Noah's flood that…

On winning

I can't say I've followed every nuance of the auto bailout. At first I was inclined to think that letting the Big Three go bankrupt and rebuild wouldn't be the worst thing ever, since they'd probably get restructured somehow into more viable entities. But in this business climate, who would buy them? And what would happen to all those workers? To all those pensioners? To all the families that rely on UAW insurance? To all the communities built around Big Three factories, or around factories for Big Three suppliers? Especially with the prospect of an honest-to-god depression on the…

Who's to blame for Sci-Hub? Librarians, of course!

And by blame, I mean "blame." Yesterday the flagship journal of the AAAS, Science, published a series of feature and editorial articles on Sci-Hub, the unauthorized article sharing site. Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone The frustrated science student behind Sci-Hub My love-hate of Sci-Hub It's a Sci-Hub world data set Overall, the articles are pretty good descriptions of the Sci-Hub phenomenon and relatively even-handed, especially coming from one of the big society publishers like AAAS. There was one bit in the main article, Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone, that really…

Should we talk about disciplines?

In "common parlance" we throw around chemistry, biology, physics, and all, sort of throwing off the diversity within these disciplines. Gosh, in my comps I answered (or attempted to answer) a question about how useful it was to talk about "scientists" and non-scientists. Going the other way, I'll frequently discuss "research areas" or "invisible colleges" (Price [a] and of course Crane[b]*) or even some of the other groupings of scientists: lab/university/organization social circle [c] paradigm (Kuhn) [d] epistemic culture (Knorr Cetina)[e] thought collective (Fleck)[f] core set (Collins…

The Physics of Frustration: "Quantum Simulation of Frustrated Classical Magnetism in Triangular Optical Lattices"

One of the benefits of having joined AAAS in order to get a reduced registration fee at their meeting is that I now have online access to Science at home. Including the Science Express advance online papers, which I don't usually get on campus. Which means that I get the chance to talk about the few cool physics things they post when they first become available, without having to beg for a PDF on Twitter. This week's advance online publication list includes a good example of the sort of cool ultra-cold atom physics that I talked about at and after DAMOP, so let's take a look at this paper in…

PopSci Returns as Valued Festival Media Partner!

Popular Science, one of the leading sources of news in technology, science, gadgets, space, green tech and more, is returning as a key Media Partner with the Festival! In doing so, PopSci joins a growing list of other top science media leaders who will be serving as Festival sponsors, including Popular Mechanics, Scientific American, MIT's Technology Review, Chemical & Engineering News, School Tube.com, ENGINEERING.com, EE Times and PBS Kids. PopSci has been a major source of science and technology news since its award-winning magazine Popular Science was founded back in 1872. Its online…

A medical journal is born

Yesterday a new medical journal was launched, Open Medicine. It's the product of Drs. John Hoey and Anne Marie Todkill, former editors of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, who were fired last year in a conflict over editorial independence. Their publisher, the Canadian Medical Association, tried to exert editorial direction and the editors resisted. It was, as they say, un scandale. The editors have risen, souls and reputations intact. Moreover, OM will be joining the growing ranks of Open Access journals with open review policies: Open Medicine is a new general medical journal. It…

Not an “accident”: William Jeffrey Belk, 29, suffers fatal work-related injuries at Boise Cascade plywood plant in North Carolina

William Jeffrey Belk, 29, suffered fatal traumatic injuries on Friday, September 26 while working at the Boise Cascade Wood Products plant in Moncure, NC. News reports provide some initial information on the worker’s death: “The Chatham County Sheriff's Office says a worker at a wood products company died when a piece of machinery fell on him.” John Sahlberg, senior vice president of Human Resources at Boise Cascade, told The Sanford Herald: "The equipment had a C-clamp, and somehow or another, the C-clamp was up and came down on him. We don't have details as to what he was doing or why the…

Back to Work

As a lot of you probably knew long before I did (we loaned our computer to our housemate who is frantically prepping for his orals ;-)), Scienceblogs took down the Pepsi blog. This actually exceeded my requests to management as parameters for me coming back. I had asked that Scienceblogs create a separate area for its advertorial content, mark it explicitly as such, and distinguish it visually from the other blogs. They removed it entirely. So I'm back. There are other issues at scienceblogs as well, which you've probably all heard about now - I think my colleague Martin Rundkvist gets a…

Global Health Links

A few recent items highlight programs and innovations that are helping improve health in developing countries: Journalist and Nieman Fellow Christine Gorman spent three months in Malawi to learn about a new program thatâs tackling the countryâs severe nursing shortage with higher pay and more support for nursing education and training.  Sheâs been writing about her trip and the issues it raised for her on her blog, Global Health Report, and now reports that the American Journal of Nursing has published a photo essay on nurses in Malawi, featuring text from Gorman and photos by Eileen…

Occupational Health News Roundup

âThe Cruelest Cuts,â the Charlotte Observerâs excellent series about âthe human cost of bringing poultry to your table,â has won five journalism awards for the Observer. Reporters Ames Alexander, Kerry Hall, Franco Ordoñez, Ted Mellnik, and Peter St. Onge undertook a 22-month investigation to get the story. They filed FOIA requests for hundreds of poultry-plant inspection files, and interviewed more than 200 current and former poultry workers. What they learned was that poultry-plant workers suffer high rates of crippling injuries, but companies cover up the problem - and workers fear losing…

ScienceBlogs Kicks Ass

tags: Seed Media Group, online media, science news, science writing, public outreach, education, announcement, press release Yesterday, The Mothership (Scienceblogs.com), released their traffic figures from the launch of the site in January 2006 through the first quarter of 2010. These numbers are quite impressive, regardless of which universe you inhabit [free PDF]: Visits for the quarter ending March 31 grew by 41% year-over-year to approximately 13 million, and page views topped 25 million. Monthly unique visitors grew to 2.4 million worldwide and in the US surpassed 2 million for the…

Call for articles: User-led Science, Citizen Science, Popular Science

A special issue of JCOM, Journal of Science Communication, has just issued a call for submissions, with the deadline moved to June 1st, 2009: Science is increasingly being produced, discussed and deliberated with cooperative tools by web users and without the institutionalized presence of scientists. "Popular science" or "Citizen science" are two of the traditional ways of defining science grassroots produced outside the walls of laboratories. But the internet has changed the way of collecting and organising the knowledge produced by people - peers - who do not belong to the established…

Correlation is not causation: what came first - high Impact Factor or high price?

Bill decided to take a look: Fooling around with numbers: Interesting, no? If the primary measure of a journal's value is its impact -- pretty layouts and a good Employment section and so on being presumably secondary -- and if the Impact Factor is a measure of impact, and if publishers are making a good faith effort to offer value for money -- then why is there no apparent relationship between IF and journal prices? After all, publishers tout the Impact Factors of their offerings whenever they're asked to justify their prices or the latest round of increases in same. There's even some…

Ettiquette for blogging a scientific meeting - a question

I will be going to a scientific conference next week. Believe it or not, this will be the first purely scientific meeting I'll attend since I quit grad school and started blogging (all the others had to do with science communication, blogging, technology, journalism, Internet, publishing...). So, I am thinking.... I remember going to scientific meetings meant going to a nice little Florida resort and spending a couple of days with one's friends and colleagues, isolated from the rest of the world, talking about science 24/7. It is an opportunity to share your latest work and ideas with an…

My picks from ScienceDaily

Insects Evolved Radically Different Strategy To Smell: Darwin's tree of life represents the path and estimates the time evolution took to get to the current diversity of life. Now, new findings suggest that this tree, an icon of evolution, may need to be redrawn. In research to be published in the April 13 advance online issue of Nature, researchers at Rockefeller University and the University of Tokyo have joined forces to reveal that insects have adopted a strategy to detect odors that is radically different from those of other organisms -- an unexpected and controversial finding that may…

Summer Plans

I'll be leaving in one week and staying in San Francisco for one month. I'll be busy, to say the least. What should I do with the blog in the meantime? After all, it is the middle of the summer when everyone is travelling or enjoying the great outdoors and the online traffic is pitiful - my traffic is about half of what I had in April and May. So, I doubt I'll be penning long thoughtful essays (unless I get really inspired once or twice). I think I'll sit down one of these days before I leave and schedule for automatic posting a Clock Quote to appear every day around 4am for the next…

Science Blogging Conference - who is coming? (Organizers)

There are 104 days until the Science Blogging Conference. The wiki is looking good, the Program is shaping up nicely, and there is more and more blog and media coverage already. There are already 81 registered participants and if you do not register soon, it may be too late once you decide to do so(we'll cap at about 230). Starting today, I'll start introducing the participants here, pretty much daily. I'll start by getting the organizers out of the way first ;-) Anton Zuiker is a blogger and a journalist, and currently works as manager of internal communications at Duke Medicine. He is…

My picks from ScienceDaily

Flying Lemurs Are The Closest Relatives Of Primates: While the human species is unquestionably a member of the Primate group, the identity of the next closest group to primates within the entire class of living mammals has been hotly debated. Now, new molecular and genomic data gathered by a team including Webb Miller, a professor of biology and computer science and engineering at the Penn State University, has shown that the colugos -- nicknamed the flying lemurs -- is the closest group to the primates. Anne-Marie has more. Fossil Record Reveals Elusive Jellyfish More Than 500 Million Years…

Links and files from ConvergeSouth and ASIS&T

My brain is fried. My flight home was horrifying - the pilot warned us before we even left the gate that the weather is nasty and that he ordered the stewardess to remain seated at least the first 30 minutes of the flight. Did the warning make the experience more or less frightening? I think it made it more so. Yes, the wind played with our airplane as if it was a toy, but knowing that the pilot thought it was nasty made it less comforting that he is confident himself in his abilities to keep us afloat. The scariest was the landing - we were kicked around throughout the descent until the…

Weekend fun: Build your own virus!

If you're going to create a new life form (even if it's only digital), Sunday Saturday seems like the best day to give it a try. Reposted from an earlier year. Build-A-Virus is a quick, fun, and simple game that was created and put on-line by Bioreliance, now owned by Invitrogen. This game is lots of fun, even when your students are college instructors. In this activity, you create a new virus by picking different physical characteristics. The game works like this: First, you choose whether the virus has an envelope or not. Next, you choose whether the genome is single or double-…

Not an “accident”: Bud Wesley, 65, suffers fatal work-related injury in Belding, MI

Bud Wesley, 65, suffered fatal traumatic injuries on Wednesday, November 30, while working at Spectrum Industries in Belding, Michigan. The Daily News reports: The incident occurred at about 5 a.m. The city’s police chief said that Mr. Wesley “was a part of the night maintenance crew at the facility. They were doing some high-level work and he fell from his working position.” The company’s president said that Mr. Wesley was employed by the firm since 1998. Spectrum Industries is a privately-held firm with 400 employees. Its business involves “the application of functional and decorative…

Fornvännen's Spring Issue On-Line

Fornvännen's spring issue (2010:1) is now on-line and available to anyone who wants to read it. Check it out! Michael Neiss analyses the intricate animal interlace on a weird new 8th century decorative mount. It looks like it might be Scandinavia's earliest book-cover fitting! Did it adorn the cover of a manuscript of the gospels or of the Elder Edda - or of something I shudder to even think about? Ylva Sjöstrand finds thought-out structure among the innumerable elks carved on rocks at Nämforsen during the Neolithic. Henrik Klackenberg and Magnus Olsson discuss a papal lead seal found…

Funny Poker Hand

So I was playing poker online, a little .25/.50 no limit game, and this hand comes up. New player had just sat down and he was under the gun. He raised to $1.50. I'm on the button with pocket queens, so I reraise to $5. New player calls. Flop comes 2-5-7 rainbow; he checks, I raise, he goes all in. It's still only a small percentage of my stack and I've got the big overpair and figure the only way he's got me beat is with kings or aces, so I call his reraise. Cards are flipped up, he has A 5 and hit his set of 5s on the flop. The river brings a beautiful queen, I rake the pot and he's…

Hitchens Again

In Tuesday's post I commented that Christopher Hitchens is always reliable when writing about religion. As if to prove my point, the new issue of Free Inquiry turned up in my mailbox that night. It features an essay by Hitchens addressing the looming schism in the Anglican Church on the subject of allowing openly gay priests. Sadly, the article does not seem to be available online, so I have taken the liberty of transcribing its conclusion below the fold. Enjoy! Not having space to go on about all that - much as I would like to - I merely point out that the same dilemma results in…

Five items of interest to all of you

1) The number of people who care more about gun control than about the 2nd amendment has been greater for some time now, and it has shifted even further. This is according to a new poll by Pew Research Center: After Newtown, Modest Change in Opinion about Gun Control Most Say Assault Weapons Make Nation More Dangerous 2) NASA has a new design for their next generation space suit, and it looks familiar. Have a look. NASA's is the one on the left: 3) Facebook is going to start charging one dollar per message for certain messages. They say it is for your own good. In a statement posted…

Open Lab Notebook Software?

After talking to Cameron Neylon last week, I'm strongly considering setting up an online lab notebook for my research lab. Not so much for the philosophical reasons having to do with openness and the like-- as a practical matter, I still don't think my data will do anybody any good-- but for reasons of sheer convenience. Having the lab notebook on the web will allow me to keep tabs on what's going on during the next few months when I'm going to be spending a lot of time at home with SteelyKid. The one catch is, the system Neylon uses for his lab blog is optimized for, well, a biochemist--…

Why Oklahoma?

Im not gonna lie. We got a lot of shit to put up with in Oklahoma. Batshit insane politicians trying to ban scientists from the state, make federally funded research illegal, hold up HIV/AIDS funding for personal religious reasons, post medical identifiers of women who have abortions online... yeah, theyre just pretty much insane. So a question I get rather frequently is "Why the hell did you decide to go to grad school in Oklahoma??" Some might assume I only put up with 'Oklahoma crap' because I 'had to', which is certainly not the case. The University of Oklahoma is actually a really great…

Ant News Roundup 2/24/09

What's new in ant science this week? Lots. Atopomyrmex mocquerysi, South Africa Myrmecological News has posted a pair of studies online.  The first, by Martin Kenne et al, observe the natural history of one of Africa's most conspicuous yet chronically understudied arboreal ants, Atopomyrmex mocquerysi. The second, by Jim Wetterer, is part of a continuing series on the global spread of pest ants.  This installment targets Monomorium destructor. Onychomyrmex sp., Australia The Australian Journal of Entomology counters with a pair of its own ant studies.  In the first, Hiroki Miyata et…

PSA: Rice ADVANCE's workshop on negotiating the ideal faculty position

The email below announces this year's "Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position" workshop run by Rice University's ADVANCE program. I've heard great things about this workshop and they've run it for several years. In fact, I applied two years running and didn't get in, so it must be popular for a reason. Dear Colleague: A recent study of diversity in engineering notes that "the most accurate predictor of subsequent success for female undergraduates is the percentage of women among faculty members at their college [1]." At Rice University we are strongly committed to increasing the diversity of…

Run, do not walk, to register for ScienceOnline2010

Over the weekend, registration opened for ScienceOnline2010, the fourth annual science communicators conference to be held January 14-17, 2010, in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. Please join us for this free (but donations are accepted) three-day event to explore science on the Web. Our goal is to bring together scientists, physicians, patients, educators, students, publishers, editors, bloggers, journalists, writers, web developers, programmers and others to discuss, demonstrate and debate online strategies and tools for doing science, publishing science, teaching…

Liberty University sure is skilled at sucking on the government teat

Wait—Liberty University gets half a billion dollars a year in federal aid? And they have almost 50,000 students? I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of minds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I looked a little further and discovered, though, that Liberty is actually a mid-sized private college with an on-campus enrollment of about 12,000 — they're sucking in all that money because they're deeply involved in that lucrative on-line 'education' game, where they shuffle students through a series of web pages and declare them S-M-R-T, smart. I was made…

When You Find Out You've Been Waterboarded

The writer, blogger, teacher, and, we're proud to say, World's Fair guest contributor Oronte Churm has a remarkable small essay over at The Education of Oronte Churm, called The Calculus of Military Service. He writes of his own past military experience and his own dawning awareness of the effects of military training on the subsequent lives of soldiers. That subject is vast, but in this well-researched small piece Churm brings it together with grace and clarity. When reading it I thought, this is either an example of (a) why and how blogging can actually be a legitimate literary and…

Debate Over Iraq Dominates News of Stem Cell Bill

The latest analysis of the week's top news agenda stories from the Project for Excellence in Journalism shows that despite the Dems best efforts to draw media and public attention to their roster of House bills, most notably stem cell research, coverage of the president's Iraq policy and national address completely dominated the media agenda: The debate over what to do next in Iraq thoroughly dominated the news landscape last week, according to the PEJ News Coverage Index. In the second week of the new year (January 7-12) Iraq policy filled 34% of the overall newshole and was the top story…

STEM CELL BILL PASSES THIRTY-SEVEN VOTES SHORT OF VETO OVERRIDE: Dems Likely to Stretch Out Debate, Make It as Politically Painful as Possible for Bush and Opponents

This afternoon, as expected, the House passed the stem cell funding bill, 253 to 174, falling well short of the 290 votes needed to overturn a Bush veto. Debate now moves to the Senate, where news reports peg support teetering right at the 2/3 majority needed in the chamber to override the anticipated presidential veto. So what are the options and where are things headed? A range of possibilities exist, with many floated this week in press reports: a) Supporters keep passing versions of the bill, and Bush keeps vetoing, until public pressure builds, and either House members shift their…

The Informationist: AM 2

I'm here at The Informationist: Collaboration between scientists and librarians to support informatics research at the Embassy Suites in DC. It's sponsored by Elsevier as part of their Research Connect series. (stream of consciousness) Annette Williams, Vanderbilt U Med Ctr - Integrating best evidence into patient care Essentially seemed to be 3 pieces. Within their order set something or other, their internally developed electronic med records some messaging and stuff, and consumer health site linked to icd-9 codes and lab test explanations. Dr. Medha Bhagwat, Bioinformatics Trainer, NIH…

New Book: "Flor y ciencia"

Kristin wrote, in a comment: Hey, although a search for blogs by Hispanic scientists is coming up empty, it looks like there's a new anthology by female Hispanic scientists and engineers! But you can't find it in the online bookstores. Looks like if you want a copy, you have to email NCantu AT malcs DOT net. I think we should give them a boost at getting the word out, don't you? And she gave us this website to check out. Here's a press release about one of the contributors to the book. Growing up in rural Los Angeles County in the 1960s, Cal State Northridge biology professor…

New book on junk science

There's a new book on junk science out. The following is from an announcement on the History and Philosophy of Science list. I haven't read the book myself. Although the term "junk science" has often been used by rightists in the U.S. to describe science that contradicts their interests, they have no ownership of the phrase. Since the twisting of science by various special interests has always been part of the history of science, I make (with your indulgence) announcement of the following new book and its complete Table of Contents: JUNK SCIENCE: How Politicians, Corporations, and Other…

What will be the next Sudoku?

The New York Times has a great article on the Japanese gaming company responsible for the Sudoku craze. The article is interesting, but be sure to check out the sidebar, where you can try three up-and-coming rivals to Sudoku. Personally I find Sudoku a little boring: After I figured out a "system" that allowed me to work out almost any puzzle, it just doesn't offer much challenge. So what's next? I really like Kakuro, which has actually been around for a while (I can even remember its U.S. version from the 1970s: "Cross-Sums"). You can try the sample puzzle on the New York Times page, but the…

George Will, the Washington Post, and the Death of Newspapers

My Science Progress column is now up: I try to set the George Will scandal in the broader context of what's happening in the media: We often hear that "technology" is what's killing newspapers--innovations like Craig's List have destroyed the in-print classified advertising market; people have stopped reading physical papers and turned to online headlines from news aggregators or blogs; and so on. But there are also matters of substance and standards, and if the Post editorial page can't even print correct facts about global warming (or correct already printed errors), then how to make the…

Psychological torture manual available online

The Manipulation of Human Behavior, a manual for psychological torture techniques written by leading psychologists and psychiatrists, is now available online. Published by John Wiley & Sons in 1961, the 323-page book was edited by Albert D. Biderman of the Bureau of Social Science Research and Herbert Zimmer, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, and funded by the U.S. government. The editors' introduction reads:  This book represents a critical examination of some of the conjectures about the application of scientific knowledge to the manipulation of…

Some Quantum Events

Summer school: We would like to inform you of the upcoming 10th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information & Research Workshop. Save the dates: July 17-30, 2010 Location: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC For more information, visit our website: qi10.ca Contact us: info [atatat] qi10.ca This summer school on quantum information marks the 10th anniversary of the highly renowned series. This year the emphasis will be on quantum algorithms and models of quantum computation, with particular attention to mathematical methods. This summer school also includes a research workshop…