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Archive for November, 2006
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November 29, 2006Open access helps when disciplines overlap
November 29, 2006
“The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has recently launched its first open-access journal, Biomicrofluidics. We asked Mark Cassar, AIP’s manager for journal development, about open access, new technologies and why a physics publisher is interested in biology . . ” [more]
Engineering student writing contest again offers $1,500 first prize
November 27, 2006Undergraduate students are encouraged to enter the College-wide Braden Engineering-Communication Contest. First prize is $1,500; second prize is $1,000; third prize is $500. The contest was created to honor Bob Braden, a UT Austin civil engineering graduate and an avid writer, and is sponsored by the Robert S. Braden Endowment. It is open to all undergraduates in the College of Engineering.
Contestants will write and submit a 1,500-word (maximum) paper on the role of engineers in developing, promoting, and maintaining solutions to security issues in international or intra-national business, travel, telecommunications, military operations, or natural resources. This topic springs from recent events, providing numerous articles and news stories to consult.
To help students’ thinking process, examples of more specific topics are provided in the Call for Papers. The winning papers from previous contests appear on the website below as well. The paper’s audience is engineering students and faculty. Submissions will be accepted no later than 4 p.m., January 31, 2007, in ECJ 10.310.
Application for the contest, the Call for Papers, and other details can be found at: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/braden/call.html
25 Greatest Science Books of All Time – By the editors of DISCOVER magazine
November 21, 2006
1. and 2. The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) and The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin [tie]
3. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Isaac Newton (1687)
4. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei (1632)
5. De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)
6. Physica (Physics) by Aristotle (circa 330 B.C.)
7. De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) by Andreas Vesalius (1543)
8. Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (1916)
9. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976)
10. One Two Three . . . Infinity by George Gamow (1947)
11. The Double Helix by James D. Watson (1968)
12. What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger (1944)
13. The Cosmic Connection by Carl Sagan (1973)
14. The Insect Societies by Edward O. Wilson (1971)
15. The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg (1977)
16. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962)
17. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould (1981)
18. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks (1985)
19. The Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (1814)
20. The Feynman Lectures on Physics by* Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands (1963)
21. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred C. Kinsey et al. (1948)
22. Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey (1983)
23. Under a Lucky Star by Roy Chapman Andrews (1943)
24. Micrographia by Robert Hooke (1665)
25. Gaia by James Lovelock (1979)
Read more about these titles at http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-06/features/25-greatest-science-books/?page=1
Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study
November 16, 2006Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study – New York Times
The Web has become such a force in commerce and culture that a group of leading university researchers now deems it worthy of its own field of study.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton in Britain plan to announce today that they are starting a joint research program in Web science.
Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web’s basic software, is leading the program. An Oxford-educated Englishman, Mr. Berners-Lee is a senior researcher at M.I.T., a professor at the University of Southampton and the director of the World Wide Web Consortium, an Internet standards-setting organization.
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Scientists mapping genetic blueprint of Neanderthals
November 16, 2006By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
Scientists probing a 38,000-year-old bone fragment may be within two years of deciphering the genetic blueprint of Neanderthals, humanity’s prehistoric cousins, according to two studies out Wednesday.
Completing the genome — or genetic map — of Neanderthals would open a window on how humans evolved from the ancestors of chimps, our closest living genetic relatives, about 6 million years ago, says Svante Paabo of Germany’s Max-Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who collaborated on studies published in the journals Nature and Science. By comparing a Neanderthal genome to already completed genomes for humans and chimps, he suggests, researchers will gain insight into which genes have evolved most recently in modern humans, and which truly set us apart from other animals.
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Spotlight on a Database: ESDU (Engineering Sciences Data Unit)
November 15, 2006The Lancet – now has weekly podcasts
November 13, 2006“The audio summaries feature our editorial staff discussing the highlights from the week’s issue, and usually include at least one interview with the study author of a key paper. Also produced is a monthly audio summary for The Lancet Infectious Diseases and The Lancet Neurology.”
