Science News - November 2012

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Presence of Water - Ice on Mercury confirmed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20553879

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Rise in sea level due to global warming and melting of polar ice sheets
Melting of polar ice sheets has added 11 mm to global sea levels over the past two decades
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20543483

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Compounds giving aroma of Durian fruit identified
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121128112206.htm

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Insulin through the nose as nasal spray shown feasible in rats.
http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2012/Insulin-nasal-spray-biomaterials-science.asp
(Royal Society of Chemistry)

Science - Quotations

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth - Gerald M. Edelman (Nobel Laureate)
Nobel Prize Banquet Speech
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1972/edelman-speech.html

Norbert Wiener - Cybernetics

Norbert Wiener invented the field of cybernetics and conceptualized the thinking that  computer technology  extends human capabilities.

Norbert Wiener was born on November 26, 1894, and received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University at the age of 18 for a thesis on mathematical logic.

During World War II, Wiener worked on guided missile technology, and observed  how the feedback principle was being used  when a missile changes its flight in response to its current position and direction. He also noticed that the feedback principle was also a key feature of life forms from the simplest plants to the most complex animals and they  change their actions in response to their environment. Wiener developed this concept into the field of cybernetics, concerning the combination of man and electronics. The book on Cybernetics was published in 1948. 

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_wiener.htm

http://www.tufts.edu/as/math/wiener.html

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Wiener_Norbert.html

Waht is Mohr's pinchcock burette?

A buret or burette is glass tube that allows delivery of a measured quantity of liquid. It is used in laboratory equipments. It was developed by Karl Friedrich Mohr using a pin on a rubber tube. The pinching action of the pin on the tube allowed the experimenter to deliver liquids drop by drop by and see the scale on the glass tube to determine the quantity of the  liquid delivered.

In the present day burets, the pinching pin is replaced by glass valve that allows liquid to flow in one position and stops the flow in other positions.

Read for more detail on it.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2008/March/MohrsBurette.asp

Trichology

Branches of Knowledge Series knol

Trichology is the science of the structure, function and diseases of the human hair.

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• Narayana Rao

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TRICHOLOGY - WHAT IS IT?

Trichology is the science of the structure, function and diseases of the human hair.

Clinical trichology is the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and disorders of the human hair and scalp.

(http://www.trichologists.org.uk/what.htm)

 

REASONS TO CONSULT A TRICHOLOGIST

Hair loss
Problems of the scalp

Hair texture problems
Pharmaceutical preparations

 

 

 

Institutes

THE INSTITUTE OF TRICHOLOGISTS - Founded 1902, UK, http://www.trichologists.org.uk/

 

 

MET - RICHFEEL Institute of Trichology, MET Complex, Mumbai, India, www.met.edu

 

Functionalist Psychology - Birth and Development - YouTube Videos

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Satyendra Nath Bose - Boson

Birthday 1 January 1894

Brief Biography  http://www.iloveindia.com/indian-heroes/satyendra-nath-bose.html

S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences  http://www.bose.res.in/ 

Schrodinger Equation - Video Explanation

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Higgs Boson - New Revolutions in Particle Physics - Lecture Videos

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Higgs Boson Discovery and Thesis - YouTube Videos

Press Conference announcing the discovery - Video
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Interview by Peter Higgs February 2012
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Simple and Detailed explanation of Higgs Boson and Higgs Field
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The Standard Model - Explanation to High School Students
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2010 Presentation - Particle Physics in the 21st Century
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Higg's Boson - Research Papers - Bibliography

Although they are still hedging a bit, physicists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced on 4th July 20120,  that they had found the long-sought Higgs boson.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/07/04/if-you-want-more-higgs-hype-dont-read-this-column/

To know basics of Higgs Boson see this Scientific American video

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=instant-egghead-what-is-2012-06-29

More Videos on Higgs Boson discovery and theory

Scientific American news item.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=higgs-cern-lhc-discovery



Scientific Papers on Higg Boson

Ph.d Thesis The Standard Model  Higgs Boson Discovery Potential - 2010
http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/E0/02/10/68/00001/drozdetski_a.pdf

Higgs Boson Detection algorithm - 2008
http://london.ucdavis.edu/~reu/REU08/sanders.pdf

Search for Higgs Boson   2002
http://gallatin.physics.lsa.umich.edu/~hyang/papers/plb-mssm-higgs.pdf

Higgs Bosons in Supersymmetric models - 1  August 1984
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/3250/slac-pub-3404.pdf

Standard Model particles - Simple explanation
http://www.nevis.columbia.edu/reu/2003/reupapertopost.pdf

Higgs and Higgs Boson - University of Edinburgh Site
http://www.ph.ed.ac.uk/higgs/


Bibliographies

New Phenomena bibliography - contains number of papers on Higg Boson
http://hep.physics.indiana.edu/~hgevans/references/new_phenom.html