http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi6yJuVoeyA Laurence Fishburne runs a desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometer on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, scientific exposition ensues. Update: the link is dead, but here is some other Laurence Fishburne
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Site Now Back on Blogger
I started this site eight years ago on Blogger, a year before Pyra Labs was purchased by Google. I’ve been hosting it on my LSU server for quite a while, but Blogger is eliminating FTP publishing so back to blogger.com it goes. All of the old links will forward to the new site, so the change should not be …
Proteomics Tweets
A mash-up of twitter feeds related to proteomics made from list widgets.
Mass Spectrometry Exam Questions
Five mass spectrometry exam questions worked out.
Audio Periodic Table
Periodic table with audio annotations from the Royal Society of Chemistry (via).
Mass Spectrometry Word Cloud
From Wordle using Yahoo Pipes.
Spezify Mass Spectrometry
Another search page mashup.
Alpha and Beta Calutrons
Contemporary photographs of alpha and beta Calutrons at Oak Ridge.
VisWiki
A Wikipedia mashup.
FT-ICR-MS Magnet Quench
Video of a Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer magnet quenching with resulting cryogen boil off.
ASMS on Twitter
The American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference is being “tweeted” on #ASMS. There is even an RSS feed RSS feed. Also see #massspec or search for mass spectrometry.
Slideshare
Slideshare is like Youtube for Powerpoint presentations. For example: Tandem Mass Spectroscopy Basicshttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=tandem-mass-spectroscopy-basics4122&stripped_title=tandem-mass-spectroscopy-basics View more presentations from cwebster.
Mass Spectrometry on Linkedin
The social networking site Linkedin has a group for mass spectrometry. Linkedin is similar to FaceBook, but focuses on professional networking.
Mass Spectrometry Hits on Wikipedia
Mass spectrometry on Wikirank A graphical representation of the popularity of the Wikipedia page on mass spectrometry.
Mass Spectrometry Twitter Feed
Mass spectrometry has a Twitter feed.
RNA Biology to Require Wikipedia Publication
Starting in 2009, the journal RNA Biology will require that authors submitting to their RNA Families section also submit a Wikipedia page summarizing the work. Both will be peer reviewed. For example, Jones, et al. RNA Biology 6, 1-4 (2009) has a corresponding Wikipedia page SmY RNA (via).
MALDI of a Copper Age Mummy
MALDI TOF mass spectrometry has been used to identify the clothing of Ötzi the Iceman (in RCM; hat tip to MW).
Video Archive: The Mass Spectrometer
A 1988 video from the University of Hertfordshire Science Centre.
Blog this Article
The on-line Journal of Chemical Physics has a “Blog this Article” button, for example: Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization and fragmentation of molecular beams: NO, I2, benzene, and butadiene J. Chem. Phys. 71, pp. 1359-1371 (1979) http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/71/1359/1
Wikipedia Statistics
Here is a site that produces a graph of hit counts for Wikipedia articles. For example mass spectrometry had 43319 hits in February, about one to two thousand hits per day (via).