Space War

Let say it is a late Christmas present for Science Fiction fans. Especially ones who like a lot of science in SF. Two articles discussion how space warfare can look. Have fun.

• www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/28/aircraft_carriers_in_space
• http://gizmodo.com/5426453/the-physics-of-space-battles

Povray export in Mercury CSD

One of the nice, new feature of Mercury CSD 2.0 is export to Povray. You can create high quality picture like one below. I used refcode MATCQI04 and Display->Voids and Calculate->Packing&Slicing option to produce the picture. If you are interesting in these as well other features of Mercury please check the article in J. Appl. Cryst. [DOI: 10.1107/S0021889807067908].

4 blogs - 4 maybe not so different subject

I would like to present 4 interesting blogs from 4 different area:

1. Bash Cures Cancer, how it is easy to guests, is a nice blog mostly about Bash tips&trick. However, you can also find infos about other FOSS.
2. I'm not sure if you can call Molecules of the Month @ 3DChem a blog. I think it's older than idea of blog (it has been started in 1996). The subtitle (molecules of the month) indicates one molecule per month, but molecules have been added in random manner - no molecule between October 2007 and January 2008 and 4 in January. Anyway, the choose of molecules are quite good and the additional information can be really useful.
3. Bad Astronomy Blog is a good blog about astronomy. I visited it first because of this entry, especially because of this picture. Just be aware that from time to time there are some politics/religion related entries.
4. Finally, Online Video Streaming Archive is looking promising place where Nature (one of the best/the best scientific journal on Earth ;) presents streaming videos that feature interviews with scientists behind the most important present research.

Physics for 'normal'

I found another interesting blog related to science. This time some physics. You can find there a lot of interesting news: i.e. the info about physics of new NBA ball or fastest waves ever photographed.

Blog with many science video lectures

Sometime ago I found Free Science and Video Lectures Online!. It's the place where Peteris Krumins try to list video courses which are related to physics, mathematics, chemistry etc. from all over the world (MIT, Berkeley).