Friday, May 21, 2010

Good Summer reading

Roger Penrose: The Road to Reality.
Jennifer A. Elliot: An Introduction to Sustainable Development.
Victor Stenger: The New Atheim.
As I'm reading this books I will be reflecting on some of the ideas that I am getting around these readings. So far it has been very productive and interesting to say the least as I reflect on the nature of time. Kind of a coincidence that Scientific America is publishing an article in the latest issue (June 2010) about the idea that time is an illusion. In his article Craig Callender (Philosophy Professor at the University of California, San Diego) postulate a fairly static universe thus getting to the conclusion that time really doesn't exist being a mere illusion.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Useful Chemistry: Dangerous Data: Lessons from my Cheminfo Retrieval Class

Dangerous data can get into scientific papers easily do to pressure to publish added to the excess amount of data available from unreliable sources. Have a look at this post:
Useful Chemistry: Dangerous Data: Lessons from my Cheminfo Retrieval Class