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Almost 6 months later from the publication of the original paper . Eight critiques! Another case of peer review out in the open .

in the august journal Langmuir , over the concept of the Gibbs adsorption isotherm (GAI). It started with a paper (a group from Eindhoven) ...

Confucius Statue Vanishes Near Tiananmen Square Unrepentant Maoists celebrated the move on Friday. “The witch doctor who has been poisoning ...

Boingboing has an excellent write-up .

:D I am now motivated to tie up my loose ends here as a postdoc and write my remaining papers. Then pack my bags, get onto a plane and star...

Pick your choice of poison: China : For most scientists, publishing an article in a prestigious journal is likely to be recognized and rewar...

My current postdoctoral grant will end in a few months' time. (In other words, I have to find a new job soon.) My advisor was unable to ...

And I leave it to you readers to judge its quality . Someone should start another journal called "Cell, Nature and Science". Talk ...

One of the neighboring lab's graduate students is defending her PhD thesis next week. Her advisor sent out the dissertation defense noti...

I wonder how the whole situation is going to play out for UNLV-Singapore if the University of Nevada system is to declare bankruptcy . More...

A mere two years after the passage of the economic stimulus package by a Democratically-led Congress, the now Republican-controlled House...

My previous post talked about the protests by faculty and graduate students in Wisconsin over the dismantling of collective-bargaining rig...

Protests in Wisconsin Very appropriate for current faculty candidates. The (always awful) academic job market is getting worse, and many u...

One of my undergraduates (let's call him D ) sent me an email over the weekend announcing that he will be taking a leave of absence fro...

For the love of books Letter from Preeti Athavle 05:55 AM Feb 07, 2011 TODAYonline The letter by Chng Hee Kok ("More help for less well...

Funny ad on TV. College is expensive, and tuition costs have been rising more than inflation.

I always laugh whenever I see a new paper ( JACS or Angewandte Chemie notwithstanding) describing the synthesis of and/or new/novel nitro...

First time I have seen this happen to the SMA folks. Of course it will not be reported on the SMA homepage, or will it? The above article...

The biggest science news of the past week probably has to be NASA's press release claiming to have isolated a bacterium that substitutes...

The main purpose of your application is to convince the Committee on Research Grants that supporting your proposal would be a good use of (t...