From National Public Radio's Morning Edition, January 28, 2008:"The newest wrinkle [in forensic DNA analysis] involves a rather innocuous-looking machine called a mass spectrometer, which is, in essence, a glorified scale that weighs individual molecules."(audio...

Excellent and refreshingly candid advice on academic job interviews (via)....

Google Books has a digitized and searchable versions of J. J. Thomson's Rays of Positive Electricity and Their Application to Chemical Analyses both the 1913 Edition as well as the 1921 Edition. There are also downloadable PDFs of the books....

Yahoo Pipes is a service that allows the manipulation of web content to create a remixed version of the information. Here is a mashup of mass spectrometry journal articles. Mass spectromery journals are fed straight in and journals with mixed content (e.g....

Yahoo Pipes is a service that allows the manipulation of web content to create a remixed version of the information. Here is a mashup of mass spectrometry journal articles. Mass spectromery journals are fed straight in and journals with mixed content (e.g....

There is a new blog on ICP MS run by a Florida State University chemistry alum....

I’ve talked about Yahoo Pipes before. It was Berkeley chemist and Sciencebase regular Mitch Garcia who turned me on to them with his clever pipe that allows anyone to search as many chemistry journals as possible that offer ASAP and in press papers online...

Chemists are picking up Yahoo Pipes, or, as Noel calls them, Pipeline Pilot for RSS feeds. I tend to agree, as the source of the workflows are closed, that is, at least require registering to the Yahoo webpage.Several chemical applications have been developed...

I got into a very interesting and controversial conversation while on a trip to Chicago with a jaunt to Green Bay last week.The topic of global warming came up from someone who believes it is happening and that something must be done about it. I made a little...