Olympus Corp.’s former president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa admitted guilt Tuesday in a cover-up of massive investment losses
There are also reports that Sony may swoop in with about 0.6 billion dollars…
It’s hard to find any objective analysis that says that the US government can keep paying its bills without some combination of tax increases and cuts to entitlement programs. It’s also hard to find any objective analysis that would predict that politicians would get reelected for doing such things. With that in mind, congress inacted…
PeerJ is a new open access journal and their killer feature is that they charge less.
What does this mean for publishing? It means it’s getting cheap fast. PLoS journals charge $1400+ for each article, PeerJ…
From the CDC:
We continue to reach and engage a wide variety of audiences on all hazards preparedness via Zombie Preparedness; and as our own director, Dr. Ali Khan, notes, “If you are generally well…
Andrew Huxley (right) passed away on May 30th at age 94.
Above is a BBC interview with Hodgkin and Huxley shot in my living room in 1985. Wolpert does an excellent…
“Okay. I think I’ve got a lead on the noise we’ve been troubleshooting. The noise is coming from a broadcast RF source between 2200 and 2500 MHz. Let’s check with the FCC and see what is allocated to that spectrum to get an idea of where this interference could be coming from.”
For small things, I pick vendors based on a few key criteria, the biggest one is how easy it is to find what I want on their web site. (The other factors are delivery…
The Labrigger editorial team was a little disappointed in the consistently excellent xkcd when the recently posted list of approximations included:
Number of seconds in a year = 75^4 (accurate to 1…
You probably already know that many grants have, in addition to the direct component that goes to the lab, an indirect component that goes to the institution.
US institutions negotiate with the NIH to set…
Nature has a special issue on the future of PhDs. It’s no secret that unlike the US MD program, PhD programs are not regulated and produce way more PhDs than there are jobs for PhDs.
The articles in the issue offer some suggestions. Many seem straightforward and pragmatic, such as studying the demand for PhDs…
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