Friday, September 19, 2008

Zewail lab studies transformations of aqua cobalt (II) complexes

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Blogosphere comments on McAfee and open access textbooks

Recent newspaper articles have drawn attention to R. Preston McAfee's free online textbook and started conversations on many blogs. Follow some of the discussions at Techdirt ("If You're Looking To Learn Basic Economics, Here's A Free Textbook") and Consumerist ("Economics Professor Self-Publishes Textbook To Subvert Overpriced Publishing Industry").

Find the book at:
McAfee, R. Preston (2005) Introduction to Economic Analysis. ISBN 160049000X. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:2005.002

Preston McAfee on textbook publishing

R. Preston McAfee, J. Stanley Johnson Professor of Business Economics and Management, comments on the similarities between textbook publishers and drug makers in "Don't Buy That Textbook, Download It Free," an article in the September 14th issue of The New York Times.

McAfee, R. Preston (2005) Introduction to Economic Analysis. ISBN 160049000X. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechBOOK:2005.002

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Jiji Zhang applies do-calculus to ancestral graphs

Torres examines inherent learning on multiple space-time length scales

Locke finds design principles of circadian clock

James CW Locke, Pål O Westermark, Achim Kramer, and Hanspeter Herzel (2008) Global parameter search reveals design principles of the mammalian circadian clock. BMC Systems Biology, 2(22), 29 February 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

© 2008 Locke et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Deshaies and Verma expore ubiquitin-proteosome pathway

Amanda M Goh, Kylie J Walters, Suzanne Elsasser, Rati Verma, Raymond J Deshaies, Daniel Finley, and Peter M Howley (2008) Components of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway compete for surfaces on Rad23 family proteins. BMC Biochemistry, 9(4), 30 January 2008. CaltechAUTHORS

© 2008 Goh et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Finoa Cowie -- Innateness and Language, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Friday, September 12, 2008

Wilhelm and Bruck issue new PARADISE report on stochastic switching circuits

Daniel Wilhelm and Jehoshua Bruck (2008) Stochastic Switching Circuit Synthesis. Technical Report. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. [CaltechPARADISE:2008.ETR089]

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Xiquan Cui et al. develop high-res optofluidic microscope-on-a-chip

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Brett Barwick describes ponderomotive Aharanov-Bohm effect

Monday, September 08, 2008

PARADISE group releases new technical report