Science and SciFi
Very glad to see that today’s Google Doodle is dedicated to the 104th birthday anniversary of Dorothy Hodgkin, known for the development of protein crystallography and establishing the structures of vitamin B12 and penicillin. X-ray… Read More »Happy birthday Dorothy Hodgkin
I was a bit puzzled by the fact I could not easily change the date/time in an instance of a virtualbox as used by the High Performance Scientific Computing Coursera course run by Dr. Randall J.… Read More »Changing date/time in Ubuntu virtualbox
When I first heard about the plans that the British Library had about an exhibitions called Science is Beautiful I got very excited. I did even make an entry in my diary about the date… Read More »Science is beautiful exhibition
Ever since the previous Java update for the mac, my Gephi installation was not happy. I resorted to uninstalling version 0.8.2-beta and going back to 0.8.1. Not a bad version, but definitely not one with… Read More »Getting Gephi 0.8.2 to work with a Mac
Some people use statistics like a drunk uses a lamp-post, for support rather than illumination.
Very pleased with the post that arrived today. It looks like I am sorted for my healthy dose of geeky reading.
It may sound like a line from Star Trek, but I can assure you that the creation of a beam made out of anti-hydrogen atoms is a real achievement carried out by scientists at CERN.… Read More »Anti-atom beam
A few days ago I got a message from my mate Jorge Soto… always great to hear from him, particularly with New Year wishes and even better with an interesting question: The question is related… Read More »Harvesting magnetic fields…
