Rowland Institute Library Blog

According to Carl Zimmer’s forthcoming Discover article, a Harvard
medical school researcher aims to synthesize a life form without DNA or
proteins. Zimmer talks about how this sort of experiment may illuminate
the evolution of earthly life. (Source; The Loom)

The National Institutes of Health put forward their nanomedicine program and asked the scientific community for input. 

Sneaky academic newspaper… They had one for the job listings for a
while (which you can customize according to position sought, e.g.
deans) , but now they have one for Daily News and another called “The
Wired Campus.”  Can A&LD be far behind?  (Source; Digital Librarian)

CNet points to a number of resources, including articles from Business
Week, Wall Street Journal and other American and even Indian outlets
(to which I would add the AIP’s article in their FYI magazine.)

A New York Times article reports that the United States no longer
dominates science, as recent counts of Physical Review articles show
more authors from outside the U.S.  (Source: Science in the
News).  (and recently, wasn’t it reported that other countries are
leapfrogging the U.S. with respect to the internet?  Sigh….)

“You Can’t Do That; It’s Patented”

Not that you’d actually want to do this, but spam takes a more sinister
direction as it is possible for someone to spoof that spam or a virus
came from your e-mail address…(Source: Internet Legal Research Weekly)

Two physicists posted a preprint in which they report: “the observed
acceleration of the Universe can produce a universal limit on the total amount
of information that can be stored and processed in the future, putting an
ultimate limit on future technology for any civilization, including a
time-limit on Moore’s Law.” 

That’s it?

(Source: The Quantum Pontiff)

A list of 46 highly thought of freeware utilities.  (Source: Inter Alia)

An article describes how long you can expect CDs to last and how they vary in quality.  (Source: The Shifted Librarian)