Just finished Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga. It's very, very good and highly recommended. A very nicely realised future milieu and a must read if you...
There is an interesting article in this weeks Nature about physicists coming round to thinking that the fine tuning of the Universes constants might just be...
I am going to be offering my online archaeology courses twice in the coming year, once in each half of the year. The courses and the schedules for the first...
I've looked at reference managers before, such as Endnote. Its got to the stage where I need to buy one for work related references, studies related references...
Edge website have releases the responses to their 2006 annual question. See URL below for links. <http://www.canicula.com/wp/?p=92> Ian -- Ian Robinson -...
... It does. The way it works is slightly different from Endnote. In Endnote if you are typing in Word and click the Cite button on the Endnote toolbar it'll...
... Leonard Susskind's contribution to Edge 2006 is on this topic. See: <http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_6.html#susskind> I find these ideas very enticing,...
The December issue of the Journal of African Archaeology is available. To see the list of contents, go to http://www.african-archaeology.de/vol3(2).html . -- ...
... This weeks New Scientist podcast has a discussion of this as well: <http://www.newscientist.com/podcast.ns> Ian -- Ian Robinson - Belfast - UK Soapbox -...
... Here is an interview with Susskind from 17th December New Scientist. I've his book on order. Just in case you haven't realised I'm catching up on the last...
What do people think about Ray Kurtzweil's ideas on life extension and the progress of technology? Some details at the URL below. Has anyone read any of his...
... You can download sections from "The Singularity is near" at: <http://singularity.com/bookexcerpts.html> Ian -- Ian Robinson - Belfast - UK Soapbox -...
Anyone here good at design? I'm looking for a group logo that reflects our goal here: science and science communication. Ideas, and actual designs welcome. If...
... Or (Brass 2002), depending on how you configure the program. ... But what happens if you then need to go back and make alterations after the scan - is...
... How about something like the famous electron orbit logo: <http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/electron/index.asp> going round something else like: 1) a...
... Don't know but I'll test it later. I expect it'll be a case of deleting the reference you want to change, inserting the new one and rescanning to generate...
... Hhmmm....that is a pain because if the reference was to be removed from the bibliography, and the person failed to notice that he/she had actually cited it...
... There is an unscan command that returns the doc to the pre-scan format. So you can do that. I should say that Bookends is MacOS only as well. Ian -- Ian...
... Sounds like the choice between Endnote and Bookends for Mac is a matter of personal preference only then:-) That and the far far cheaper price by...
... Bookends is a better Macintosh application. Plus the fact that it is supported whereas Endnote Macintosh support is apparently dire. Ian -- Ian Robinson -...
... I'm not worried about the interface, but the stability and functionality. Plus the fact that it is ... Endnote Windows support is also virtually...
... Heretic :-) ... Version 8 for Macintosh was very buggy and no free patches were released. Bookends is apparently very stable. Game over. Ian -- Ian...
... As it was for Windows. I'm on version 5 which I am very happy with, working well with Office 2003 (mine) and Office 2000 (Isabelle). However, version 9 is...
Here is a copy of an essay I had to do last year outlining the three-way catalytic converter used in car exhausts. I had to be written for a scientifically...
How do you show a subscript number in plain text? For super script we have ^, as in e=mc^2. How do we show a subscript, as needed for something like H2O? Ian ...
Mars in three hours - theoretically By Lester Haines Published Friday 6th January 2006 15:03 GMT The US military is considering testing the principle behind a...
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