a list of conference databases

Looking for a conference in your area? Here is a small list of sites that may turn to be a useful tool in that search.

I will be updating this list in the future.

Chemistry

http://www.chemistry-conferences.com/

http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/

all areas

http://www.conference-service.com/conferences/index.html

http://www.conferencealerts.com/index.htm

http://www.allconferences.com/

Azulejos que ensinam

A exposição “Azulejos que ensinam” estará aberta ao público de 17 de Maio a 28 de Setembro na biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra.

A exposição é composta por um conjunto de azulejos baseados em “Os Elementos” de Euclides e datados do século XVII (ou posterior), e ilustram os teoremas geométricos deste matemático.

Aconselha-se a visita.

nota: ver também o post http://dererummundi.blogspot.com/2007/05/azulejos-que-ensinam.html

Discover8 : a new scientific communications database

Discover8 is a new scientific communications database where registered users can suggest, comment and rate scientific communications. Its also possible to recommend any article with a valid web link (for instance your own articles ).

A large number of topics related to life sciences are present.

Take a look at it at http://www.discover8.com/

Essentials for scientific communications

We all know that an important part of the scientific work is related to communicating your findings to your peers. So here are a couple of texts on the subject (from the “Improbable research” site). I hope you find them useful .

“How to write a scientific paper“, by E. Robert Schulman

” How To Make a Scientific Lecture Unbearable” , by Alexander Khon

SOME of the great science books of all time

DISCOVER has presented a list of some of the best/most important scientific writing of all time. I think that the title “25 Greatest Science Books of All Time” is a little bit too much, but still… anyway one can always vote to set the record straight.

To see the list click here.

Just one more thing… did anyone notice that there isn’t any book refered here about chemistry? Or did I miss it?

You can find another post about the list at Blogui-ci.

expand…

Someone sent this to me by e-mail…

In the limit…

Popular blogs about science

This post is more a bookmark for myself but I don’t mind sharing with all of you who visit this blog.

Nature magazine has compiled the list of (the most) popular science blogs at the present, based on the Technorati ranking. The list is here.

I imagine that with this “publicity” the traffic in these blogs wil increase exponentially, and next year they will be even more at the top. .

The list is also refered in: http://blogomica.blogspot.com/

Can ART be created by robots?- The work of Lionel Moura

The first time the work of Lionel Moura was brought to my attention, my first reaction was: “It is an interesting exercise but is it art?”. Then, as now, I somehow feel that art implies some kind of intelectual process by the creator of the work. One must ask: is a set of totally random lines created by robots a work of art? Or in the same line of thought, when does a broken glass bottle ends being trash and becomes being something worth to be shown in a museum of modern art? Anyway if the artistic community takes him seriously who am I to say his is not art. I’m not arguing “if it is nice to look at”. My doubts are about the process of the artistic creation.

This question is completely put aside on other work of the artist such has in the “section” Voronoi paintings.

Anyway, the best way to get to know his work is to go to his own web page and browse around the site. There you can find the extensive list of examples of the work by the artist (paintings created by robots with some kind of “artificial intelligence”, the paintings based on the work of Voronoi and many other creations.). Texts about his ideas and concepts about art and the cv are also available.

Check it out. It’s worth it.

Landmarks of Science : Christie’s auction

Just for you to have an idea of what is going to be auctioned tomorow here is a small list with few examples:

		Lot
		115 Lot details	ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879-1955) Autograph manuscript of his first scientific essay, ‘Über die Untersuchung des Aetherzustandes- im magnetischen Felde’ ['On the investigation of the ...		300,000 - 500,000 British pounds

138 Lot details

The Thomas Alva Edison Trial Evidence (Edison Electric Light Company vs. United States Electric Light Company) for U.S. patent 223,898 Used as courtroom evidence on the 8 July ...

200,000 - 300,000 British pounds

29 Lot details

CAROLUS LINNAEUS (1707-1778) Systema naturae, sive regna tria naturae systematice proposita per classes, ordines, genera, & species. Leiden: Johann Wilhelm de Groot for Theodor ...

200,000 - 300,000 British pounds

		83 Lot details		SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727) Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London: Joseph Streater, 1687. 4° (235 x 178mm). Engraved plate of cometary orbit bound between 3M1 and ...		90,000 - 120,000 British pounds
		36 Lot details	CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (1809-1882, EDITOR) The Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the Command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N., during the Years 1832 to 1836. London: Smith, ...		50,000 - 80,000 British pounds
		54 Lot details		EUCLIDES (FL. C.300 B.C.) Elementa geometriae. Translated from Greek or Arabic into Latin by Adelard of Bath. Edited by Johannes Campanus. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 25 May 1482. ...		50,000 - 70,000 British pounds

		86 Lot details		SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727) Opticks: or, a Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. Also Two Treatises of the Species and Magnitude of ...		20,000 - 30,000 British pounds
		87 Lot details		SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727) Manuscript on paper, 'Opticae' [the Optical Lectures], in Latin, a transcription in a late 17th-century hand, two volumes bound in one, 243 pages, 4to …		20,000 – 30,000 British pounds
		74 Lot details		JOHANN KEPLER (1571-1630) Epitome astronomiae copernicanae. Linz: Johann Planck [vol. I], Linz: Johann Planck for Gottfried Tambach, and Frankfurt: Gottfried Tambach [vol. III], …		15,000 – 25,000 British pounds
		67 Lot details		GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti … si aggiungono nel fine le Lettere, e Disquisizioni del finto Apelle. Rome: …		18,000 – 25,000 British pounds

		100 Lot details		JOHN DALTON (1766-1844) A New System of Chemical Philosophy. London: S. Russell, Manchester for R. Bickerstaff [vol. I, part 1] and Russell and Allen, Manchester for R. …		17,000 – 25,000 British pounds

103 Lot details

DMITRI IVANOVICH MENDELEEV (1834-1907) Osnovy khimii. [Principles of Chemistry]. St Petersburg: 1869-71. 2 volumes, 8° (179 x 110mm). Half-titles, engraved illustrations in text, …

12,000 – 18,000 British pounds

and so much more that I will obviously will not continue.

Take a look at all the items at the “Christie’s” site (from where I took the texts and images above).

LANDMARKS OF SCIENCE, Sale 7269
December 13, 2006, London, King Street