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The fear that “the-company-which-should-not-be-named” used to inspire!
Published on 2010-08-13 00:29:17
Paul Graham: If anyone at Yahoo considered the idea that they should be a technology company, the next thought would have been that Microsoft would crush them. It’s hard for anyone much younger than me to understand the fear Microsoft still inspired in 1995. Imagine a company with several times the power Google has now, [...]
Nucleation in liquids
Published on 2010-08-10 23:24:13
May be an old topic; but the abstract claims some new findings: Crystallization is one of the most fundamental nonequilibrium phenomena universal to a variety of materials. It has so far been assumed that a supercooled liquid is in a “homogeneous disordered state” before crystallization. Contrary to this common belief, we reveal that a supercooled [...]
The frenzy about simple publication metrics
Published on 2010-08-10 01:22:38
From this editorial in ACS Nano (hat tip to my colleague A S Panwar for the pointer): There is a tremendous frenzy about the simple publication metrics among scientists of all calibers. Take, for instance, the h-index, which is a great reflection on how our community behaves. Discussion of new faculty candidates necessarily involves someone [...]
