Jun 30

The were published yesterday by Thompson Reuters.
The Impact Factor of Molecular Systems Biology for 2007 is 9.954
This represents a substantial increase over last year’s Impact Factor (see chart) and we would like to warmly thank all our authors and reviewers who have contributed to this success. We will continue to work very hard to […]

Jun 30

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Honestly, when I received Arjun’s email, I thought the blog would be just another boring, stale-template website. It’s anything but that!
Here are a few articles that caught my eye.

- Arjun tells us how to abandon MS Word for those crazy papers you have to write.
Student kitchen essentials - You’ve got to eat, […]

Jun 28

Lynne Kiesling
The Leroy Coolbreeze Fund honors the memory of Ian Copeland, a legendary music agent and bon vivant who brought great joy to many people throughout his too-short life. Along with his brothers Stewart (best known as the drummer in The Police) and Miles (who, among other things, managed The Police and founded IRS Records), […]

Jun 28

Michael Giberson
An article in the Washington Post discusses what you can do when building a new home to help keep energy costs low. Here Michael McKechnie of Mountain View Builders in Berkeley Springs, WV, provides a summary:
McKechnie outlined the major steps to building a house with the lowest possible energy costs and perhaps an […]

Jun 28

Lynne Kiesling
The New York Times has an : consumers are substituting out of low fuel economy cars and into high fuel economy cars.
With gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon, consumers are overwhelming dealerships with demand for the littlest vehicles in the showroom.
Mr. Libby said that the tiny Honda Fit is on a dealer’s lot an […]

Jun 28

Michael Giberson
That is the goal. Few numbers show up in the Christian Science Monitor article to support that claim, but the people discussed are launching a business with the goal of improving the design further and then go to production. The key innovations appear to be in the cheaper process to produce the […]

Jun 27

Michael Giberson
What is the current and future state of regional wholesale electricity markets?
The conference also will be webcast - the official notices says it will be available for a fee, but the event page on the Commission’s web calendar says the webcast is free. I don’t know which version is correct, but […]

Jun 27

Michael Giberson
Arnold Kling has :
One of the issues that [Russ Robert’s didactic novel, The Price of Everything] raises–the very first one, in fact–is the morality of raising prices when something becomes scarce, such as flashlights after a weather disaster. Russ makes the standard case for allowing the price to ration the scarce resource, but I […]