When doing a literature search, it’s a good idea to start from a few articles and then (if they are along the lines of what you are looking for) use their references and articles that reference them to expand the search.
One handy way of doing that is with the HubMed Graph Browser. You get to [...]

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Our new building (the Computational Science and Engineering Building) at Hopkins lacks drop ceilings throughout. It’s got sort of a modern/industrial look with exposed duct work and so on. It also has marker boards and bulletin boards everywhere. Last week someone wrote on a marker board,

Can we have ceilings?

below it was written,

No ceilings for you! [...]

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If you’re subscribed to the RSS feed for this blog, you will have seen the NOLA Rising photograph that I posted (here). I finally looked up this campaign, and found that they have a blogspot blog here.
As we walk around post-Katrina new orleans, and see things that still aren’t back to normal, it’s always heartwarming [...]

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Have you noticed that everything is named in CamelCase these days? Anyway…
I’ve had a couple of conversations with Dr. Rachel Karchin here at the ICM regarding Open Access scientific publishing, and PLoS specifically. Last week, she forwarded an email to me regarding PubCasts on SciVee. (Example here.)
A “PubCast” is basically the same thing as [...]

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I just moved from Sprint to T-Mobile (more on that later). One thing I always liked about sprint voicemail, since my immediate family all uses sprint, is that it has the option to skip the greeting by pressing 1.
It always kind of annoyed me when leaving a voicemail for Amanda that I couldn’t skip [...]

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