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October 30, 2009

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Rowland News

Bacteria power micro-ratchet
Rowland's Howard Berg is quoted.

Newest Rowland Junior Fellows

SEAS and Rowland grad student wins award for fuel cell research

(Source: Shriram Ramanathan)

Visiting professor at Rowland: Jianhua Ren

Books/eBooks

E-Books: Formats and Future
See also: The E-Reader Explosion: A Cheat Sheet
(Source: inkyelbows)

Is Book Sharing Really a Threat to Publishing?
(Source: Digital Koans)

Latest battle in book price wars

A Look at the Vook

Making your bookshelves Google searchable
(Source: Erika McNeil)

Safari Books Online 6.0: A Cloud Library as an alternate model for ebooks
(Source: John Dupuis)

Why you probably should NOT buy an e-reader this year
(Source: Library Web)

Computers and Internet

The Apple Momentum
(Source: Eric Rumsey)

Augmented Reality Shows Recovery.gov Funding Near You
(Source: John Reaves)

Become a PowerPoint Power User
(Seen on Twitter: "Power corrupts, and PowerPoint corrupts absolutely."

Celebrating 40 years of the net
(Source: ScienceSoWhat)

Compile Software from Source Code

Create an RSS Feed for any website
(Source: Robin Good)

EFF opens the "Takedown Hall of Shame"

Firefox 3.5.4 closes security holes

Five Things You Should Know About Upgrading From XP to Windows 7
See also: Hasta la Vista, baby: Ars reviews Windows 7
See also: Lifehacker's Complete Guide to Windows 7
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump)

Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
(Source: Sharon Hayes)

How to Carry Your Office on a Stick (USB Flash Drive)

iPhone 3GS vs Droid: How Do They Really Stack Up?
(Source: Om Malik)

Netbooks Are Only Part of The Solution

The one where we invent the best search engine ever

5 Ways to Get Free Tech Advice Online
(Source: Beyond the Black Stump

Science

Advancing the laser: SPIE honors breakthroughs, applications, possibilities
(Source: Open Access Tracking Project)

African Science Feels the Pinch

Around the Schools: Harvard Medical School
New profile database, Catalyst, and Grant Central

Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second

Cellular secrets exposed in living color

A Conversation with Nobel Women
See also: Winners of women-in-life-sciences award announced

eCAT: Online electronic lab notebook for scientific research

Energy Dept. Aid for Scientists on the Edge

Fewer Scientists, Not More, Says a New Paper

A group of galaxies has been seen at a record distance from Earth

Head in the clouds: Re-imagining the experimental laboratory record for the web-based networked world

Innovation More Critical Than Ever
See also: Outlooks and issues for the biotechnology sector

Integrated Genome Browser software for distribution and exploration of genome-scale datasets

The Laboratory at Harvard
(Source: Harvard Gazette)

A Life Lived Backwards

The many hats of science

Nobels Prizes and Corporate Labs
(Source: genomepop)

The Open Laboratory 2009
(Source: BoraZ)

Physical scientists will apply laws of physics in cancer fight

Returning to Science

Science enters the age of Web 2.0
(Source: dullhunk)

Scientists are first to observe the global motions of an enzyme copying DNA

Sensor to detect fear pheromone
(Source: raduboncea)

Ten Simple Rules Collection

UMass Boston Announces New "Science in a Changing World" Grad Program

4000 Years of Women in Science
See also: Women in Science (European Commission Research)
(Source: sciencegoddess)

Why Does Public Transport Not Arrive on Time? The Pervasiveness of Equal Headway Instability
(Source: BoraZ)

NEW BOOKS

Received October 24 - 30, 2009