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Monthly Archives: December 2005
SimTK.org
I’m not really sure what SimTK.org is all about yet, but they do look like they have some interesting things in the works. Of particular interest to me is the Molecular Dynamics Language and the Simbody multibody dynamics toolset. Check … Continue reading
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Found over coffee: A great article on the Dover trial
It has been a slow week in South Bend, and this afternoon over lunch at Lula’s, I came across a fantastic article on the Dover School Board trial that was in the December 5th edition of the New Yorker. It … Continue reading
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Well, that pretty much says it all
From MSNBC.com, here’s the headline: Judge rules against ‘intelligent design’. And here’s an excerpt from the decision: To be sure, Darwin’s theory of evolution is imperfect. However, the fact that a scientific theory cannot yet render an explanation on every … Continue reading
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Two new forum questions
Over in the OpenScience Forums there are two threads which ask some good questions: gelinp asks if there are any open source graphics programs that allow the user to draw curves on a 2-d canvas and then place tangents and … Continue reading
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Where’s the Real Bottleneck in Scientific Computing?
Greg Wilson has written a great article in American Scientist on the shocking absence of modern software development practices from groups that do science using computers. I know exactly what Greg is talking about. Some of the groups I’ve worked … Continue reading
Chemicals & Exotic Metals
My new favorite site of the day: United Nuclear’s Chemicals & Exotic Metals which appears to be a page for people doing experiments with home-brewed fireworks, magnetic levitation, and neutron activation experiments. On a single page, they have D2O, Beryllium … Continue reading
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Adventures in Synthetic Biology
Nature ran a comic as Nature 438, pp 449-453 (2005). You can read about it here and see the comic here. The comic was drawn by Chuck Wadey and was written by Drew Endy and Isodora Deese from the MIT … Continue reading
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YACAS
We have a new link today in our Abstract Algebra section for YACAS, which stands for “yet another computer algebra system”. YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. … Continue reading
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The Loh-Down on Science
I’ve been a fan of Sandra Tsing Loh’s NPR & Marketplace commentaries for years. I had no idea she had training as a physicist. And now, via Cosmic Variance, I find out she’s got a new show called The Loh-Down … Continue reading
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Yacas
YACAS is an easy to use, general purpose Computer Algebra System, a program for symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions. It uses its own programming language designed for symbolic as well as arbitrary-precision numerical computations. The system has a library of … Continue reading
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