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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 ‚â§ A_r(C) ‚â§ 12.0116. See Atomic weights of the elements 2009 (IUPAC Technical Report) (via).

John Fenn

Nobel laureate John B. Fenn died Friday in Richmond, Virginia at age 93.

Retrospective: John Bennett Fenn (1917‚Äì2010)

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 N√ºrnberg.

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 until the search bots index the new blog posts.

NASA Mass Spectrometry Video

NASA video on mass spectrometry on planetary probes. An MP4 video is also available.

Toothpaste for Dinner on Mass Spectrometry

The webcomic Toothpaste for Dinner weighs in.

ASMS 2010 on Twitter

The ASMS conference is on Twitter again this year (hashtag #ASMS). Unlike last year, manufacturers such as Waters are using tweets to promote their instruments and events. This year, too, there is a Twitter parade.

Video: Introduction to Mass Spectrometry

Reconstructors

The Reconstructors use mass spectrometry to save civilization.

Ambient Mass Spectrometry: The future for instant chemical analysis

United Kingdom National Physical Laboratory Podcast.

DESI on CSI

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

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 noticeable to users.