We all need to make a distinction between freely accessing information that we require to add to our knowledge and using that information for personal gain. Beware of indiscriminate copying in the Open Access environment. Aaron Swartz`s brief life was all about making information free available, but at what cost?… Read more………….. Preserving the Commons…
AstroBetter Blog This blog is intended for professional astronomers. The goal of AstroBetter is to provide information and tips about streamlining all the things we need to do Astronomy well. In addition to mac computing, our discussions include email management, paper organization, iPhone apps, and the like. In addition, we also provide methods for increasing…
Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan His LIFE and WORK by D C V Mallik and S Chatterje, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru University Press (India) Pvt Ltd, 2012 This is an eminently readable account of not only the life and scientific contributions of Sir K. S. Krishnan FRS but also in many ways, the history of the…
JSTOR offers free Register & Read program to online access to individual scholars and researchers who register for a MyJSTOR account. To register, follow the link https://www.jstor.org/action/registration This program includes approximately 1,200 journals from more than 700 publishers, a subset of the content in JSTOR. Once you’ve you may add the item to…
A new Physics World special report examines the challenges for physicist in India The latest special report by Physics World, focuses on physics in India. The report reveals that money is not in short supply for the country`s top researchers, but that India lacks a critical concentration of highly capable scientists who can make…
Full text of the research papers published in December 2012 can be accessed from Indian Institute of Astrophysics Repository. Anathpindika, S., Bhatt, H. C, 2012, On the evolution of irradiated turbulent clouds: a comparative study between modes of triggered star formation, MNRAS, 427, 1713 Javaraiah, J, 2012, The G–O rule and Waldmeier effect in the…
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BBC Tamilosai had recently interviewed Dr.S.Soundararajaperumal, Director, Tamilnadu Science & Technology Centre, Chennai, on the topic of impact of NASA’s Artificial Satellites on the Moon and the Mayan Calendar. Listen to the BBC interview, http://www.bbc.co.uk/tamil/science/2012/12/121218_tamilsciencedec182012.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/tamil/multimedia/2012/12/121218_sciencetamildec18122012.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ariviyal
“The Milner Foundation announced on Tuesday that the British cosmologist Stephen Hawking and a team of seven scientists at CERN, the European research center for particle physics, had won a pair of $3-million prizes….” Source: Nytimes Read more at: www.nytimes.com
