Archive for May, 2015

The NIH Spends More on Travel Paperwork Than on Researching Hodgkin’s Disease – Bloomberg Business

Sunday, May 31st, 2015

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-09/shrimp-scandal-fallout-has-nih-fighting-paperwork-not-cancer

The Mary Celeste, the unluckiest ship to ever sail the seven seas.

Sunday, May 31st, 2015

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2011/12/the_mary_celeste_the_unluckiest_ship_to_ever_sail_the_seven_seas_.html?wpsrc=fol_tw

Found this review

Sunday, May 31st, 2015

Nice graph of seq. machine output v time

http://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/abstract/S1097-2765(15)00340-8

Herman Goldstine – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sunday, May 31st, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Goldstine

John von Neumann – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sunday, May 31st, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

Vladimir K. Zworykin – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sunday, May 31st, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_K._Zworykin

David Sarnoff – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sunday, May 31st, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sarnoff

Triode – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sunday, May 31st, 2015

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triode

QT:{{”
In the triode, electrons are released into the tube from the metal cathode by heating it, a process called thermionic emission. The cathode is heated red hot by a separate current flowing through a thin metal filament. In a few triodes, the filament itself is the cathode, while in most the filament heats a separate cathode electrode. Virtually all the air is removed from the tube, so the electrons can move freely. The negative electrons are attracted to the positively charged plate (anode), and flow through the spaces between the grid wires to it, creating a current through the tube from cathode to plate.

The magnitude of this current can be controlled by a voltage applied between the cathode and the grid. The grid acts like a gate for the electrons. A more negative voltage on the grid will repel some of the electrons, so fewer get through to the plate, reducing the plate current. A positive voltage on the grid will attract more electrons from the cathode, so more reach the plate, increasing the plate current. Therefore, a low power varying (AC) signal applied to the grid can control a much more powerful plate current, resulting in amplification. Variation in the grid voltage will cause identical proportional variations in the plate current. By placing a suitable load resistance in the plate circuit, the varying current will cause a varying voltage across the resistance which can be much larger than the input voltage variations, resulting in voltage gain.
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Bamberger’s – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, May 30th, 2015

Amazon of the day; the funding for the IAS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamberger‘s

The Simons Center for Systems Biology | School of Natural Sciences

Saturday, May 30th, 2015

https://www.sns.ias.edu/csb/