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January 17th, 2012

An article in the NY Times looks at by-passing peer review.

Posted on January 17th, 2012 at 12:50 by Steve Sloan in General | Permalink | Comments Off

Canada holds its place in science

January 16th, 2012

A chart on page 52 of the December 17, 2011 issue of New Scientist show that Canada’s contribution to the world’s scientific literature held steady from 1999-2008 at about 4% of the world’s total.

Posted on January 16th, 2012 at 14:15 by Steve Sloan in General | Permalink | Comments Off

Are the big news articles in Physics available at UNB Libraries?

December 16th, 2011

Physics World has just released its list of the top 10 advances in Physics for 2011. I set out to see how our subscription list held up in making the discoveries available to UNB readers. The results:

  1. Amplifying Single-Photon Nonlinearity Using Weak Measurements
  2. Simple and in situ determination of general quantum states using weak measurement (arXiv preprint)
  3. Demonstration of temporal cloaking (arXiv preprint) and Macroscopic Invisibility Cloaking of Visible Light (arXiv preprint)
  4. A new cosmological distance measure using Active Galactic Nuclei
  5. Observation of the Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Circuit (arXiv preprint)
  6. Scale for the Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics
  7. Will be published in Physical Review Letters, to which we have a subscription
  8. Single-cell biological lasers. UNB Libraries has no access to this article and it appears no preprint was placed in the arXiv system.
  9. Implementing the Quantum von Neumann Architecture with Superconducting Circuits
  10. Detection of Pristine Gas Two Billion Years after the Big Bang (arXiv preprint)

Posted on December 16th, 2011 at 12:36 by Steve Sloan in General | Permalink | Comments Off

Looking for Science-related media?

December 7th, 2011

A couple of good places:

Posted on December 7th, 2011 at 13:26 by Steve Sloan in General | Permalink | Comments Off

Feynman biography (graphic novel style)

December 6th, 2011

When I was at the ALA conference last June I picked up a few science books that were written in the “graphic novel” style. (They are in our SCI-POP collection.) One was a biography of Richard Feynman. I also bought an original drawing by the book’s artist. You can see it hanging near the collection. Today I came across a blog that reviewed the book.

Posted on December 6th, 2011 at 11:37 by Steve Sloan in General | Permalink | Comments Off

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