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Irving Langmuir’s Movies
From the 1927 Solvay Conference (via).
Mass Spectrometry TOC ROFL
A blog that finds the humor in table of contents graphics.
Humanities Gets Its Omics On
The newest “omics” is culturomics; see Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books in Science. It is one of the few “omics” that doesn’t use mass spectrometry, but it can be used to learn about mass spectrometry (via).
IUPAC Changes Standard Atomic Weights of 11 Elements
The standard atomic weight of germanium has been changed and the atomic weights of H, Li, B. C. N, O, Si, S, Cl, and Tl are expressed as an interval. For example, the standard atomic weight of carbon is expressed as 12.0096 ‚⧠Ar(C) ‚⧠12.0116. See Atomic weights of the elements 2009 (IUPAC Technical …
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John Fenn
Nobel laureate John B. Fenn died Friday in Richmond, Virginia at age 93. Retrospective: John Bennett Fenn (1917–2010)
Dresden AMS
Animation of the 6 MeV accelerator mass spectrometer at Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. If the lack of audio is disappointing, try this.
Accelerator Mass Spectrometry in the Classroom
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory uses telepresence to bring mass spectrometry to the classroom.
IsoPro Has Moved
IsoPro 3.1, the mass spectral isotopic distirbution simulator for Windows, is now freeware and hosted on Google Sites (previously).
Mass Spectrometry at EuCheMS
Mike Brown reports on mass spectrometry presentations the 3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Nürnberg.
Site Migration
The blog is now back to the LSU server after forced migration to Blogspot in January. The site is now running on WordPress with a new server. There is no easy to map the Blogspot posts to the posts that were imported into WordPress, so the old blog posts will stay up for a while …
NASA Mass Spectrometry Video
NASA video on mass spectrometry on planetary probes. An MP4 video is also available.
Proteomics Tweets
A mash-up of twitter feeds related to proteomics made from list widgets.
MS Meets The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Mass Spectrometry Word Cloud
From Wordle using Yahoo Pipes.