Recently, a moderately expensive optical element got fried at Labrigger. During the postmortem, we revisited our power and energy calculations, and our LIDT (laser intensity damage threshold) calculations.
LIDT calculations remind me of radiation-health physics (e.g.,…
One of the first posts in this blog was on Processing. Processing is a programming language with an integrated development environment that is specialized for simplicity– ease of learning and coding– and…
Following up on these recent posts… here’s a twitter discussion from a couple of weeks ago…
F1000’s Caeser Berrios says that people who want to participate anonymously in post-publication peer review should…
Colby Vorland coded this Chrome plugin called Lazy Scholar to make it easier to find full text versions of papers. It basically cross references a bunch of databases for you, to find information on a…
PubMed Commons has a search argument you can use to find articles with comments:
has_user_comments
You can click that link to try it yourself.
As of this writing, there are about 650 comments on all of PubMed Commons. I don’t know how this compares to…
Carson Chow’s blog announced:
There is an epic discussion on the Connectionist mailing list right now.
He followed up with his two cents entitled “(Lack of) Progress in neuroscience”.
It’s an on-going, vibrant discussion on topics including…
In the US, the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech protects many insults that can be lobbed at a person. However, a line is crossed into defamation, a civil or criminal matter, if…
Please enjoy this story from Mistress of the Animals about how her old mentor would keep all of his reviews– in the days of typewriters– and then compare new reviews to his old…
Thorlabs released a ridiculously sized (264 MB) PDF catalog for their life sciences imaging. Despite the size, I recommend downloading it and checking it out. There are several items and lots of product details that are…
Infographic by Thomas Porostocky for WIRED.
Of course Labrigger emphatically supports the work of the Gates Foundation. However, we have to disagree with Bill Gates’ choice for Graph of the Year. Topic,…
A famous speech from 1961 is being quoted in the media recently, and it might be interesting to Labrigger readers that the same speech offered some thoughts about the future relationship between science and the federal…
