MIT Postdoc
Computational Chemistry Postdoc at MIT
I run @acidflask's sciency tweets. Life at MIT. Life as a postdoc. Science focussing on computational/theoretical chemistry/physics.
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Ant drinks from drop of water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF6sE0dMXNI
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Media thinks science says the chicken. Press: http://bit.ly/aWWec2 Angew Chem: http://is.gd/dyh1u
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"The electrons in helium tend to synchronize their motions about the nucleus in such a way as to keep apart as (cont) http://tl.gd/2i7bf5
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"Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a Scientist" - a rare documentary about graduate studentship http://www.thirteen.org/naturally-obsessed/
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Mathematicians take on octopus, predict Spain win http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug10/football/index.html
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Chemists make molecule with nearly planar carbon center http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/July/08071002.asp
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FDA approves telescoping lens implants http://gizmodo.com/5582539/telescopic-eye-implants-magnify-life-help-people-see-again
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@EricRWeinstein even volume rendering based on atomic radii still harkens back to old notions of balls on sticks
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@EricRWeinstein for example, here's a volumetric rendering of a molecular orbital i did a while ago http://bit.ly/a5ptjt
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@EricRWeinstein agree that molecular visualization is very outdated, but no one's seriously tried since
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Working through Ewald summations for smeared charges. I might be hallucinating, but this might actually be working better than expected.
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And now it's officially July. still feeling like I haven't done much this year.
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Quantum Info peeps: srsly?! rediscovering physical chemistry is NOT "Speculative but potentially explosive work" KTHX http://is.gd/d7INF
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Back in Chi-town, munching on a fresh Krispy Krame. TAKE THAT DUNKIN
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Epiphany: wondering why my data has funny wiggles, only to realize that it has predicted (correctly) the existence of Friedel oscillations!
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I seriously don't understand why some people are unwilling to share data, especially when it's already published in the form of a graph.
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"This paradox is characteristic... but if we stick faithfully to the definition I am proposing the paradox holds no terrors."
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The straw man example I devised not only managed to make other methods look bad, it also made my method look like teh suck. :/
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Today, I, ignorant theorist, learn what symbol is used for a detector in a setup chart. Adv At Mol Opt Phys 51 http://twitpic.com/1xlwce
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New visiting student brought some of these from China. The resemblance to a cigarette box is uncanny... http://twitpic.com/1xcgov
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Trawling WoS for polarizabilities of sodium clusters. Amazed at the sheer number of parallel, independent calculations done.
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The Audacity of Hype - posted in a pillar box at Davis Sq http://twitpic.com/1xbejg
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Since the topic of MIT hacks came up over lunch with @lifeofsacrifice here is a database of MIT hacks http://hacks.mit.edu
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Just asked today's prospective postdoc lots of inane questions at his group meeting today. Is there a postdoctoral analogue of PMS?
