Archive for the ‘Cherry pickin’’ Category

Ways ‘n’ errors

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

The best of the rest from the physics arXiv:

Recent Results from Super-Kamiokande

Detection of Organic Materials by Spectrometric Radiography Method

Why Do Cosmological Perturbations Look Classical to Us?

Emergent Spacetime and The Origin of Gravity

“Fractal Expression” in Chinese Calligraphy

Cold ‘n’ cool

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

The best of the rest from the physics arXiv:

Clathration of Volatiles in the Solar Nebula and Implications for the Origin of Titan’s atmosphere

Why Do Cosmological Perturbations Look Classical To Us?

Hyper-Gratings: Nanophotonics in Planar Anisotropic Metamaterials

Fish Biomass Structure at Pristine Coral Reefs and Degradation by Fishing

The Decline in the Concentration of Citations, 1900-2007

Earths ‘n’ Mars’

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

The best of the rest from the physics arXiv:

Skull Flexure from Blast Waves: A New Mechanism for Brain Injury with Implications for Helmet Design

Triangleland. II. Quantum Mechanics of Pure Shape

Atom Interferometry Based on Light Pulses

The Frontiers of Nuclear Science, A Long Range Plan

A Statistical Approach to Modeling Indian Classical Music Performance

Orbits ‘n’ ephemeris

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

The best of the rest from the physics arXiv this week:

Correlated Connectivity and the Distribution of Firing Rates in the Neocortex

Constructing Perfect Steganographic Systems

Fainter and Closer: Finding Planets by Symmetry Breaking

Diamond Nanoparticles as Photoluminescent Nanoprobes for Biology and Near-Field Optics 

Silicon Photonics: The Inside Story

Limb Preference in the Gallop of Dogs and the Half-Bound of Pikas on Flat Ground

Precise Orbital Tracking of an Asteroid with a Phased Array of Radio Transponders

Rubies ‘n’ diamonds

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

The best of the rest from the physics arXiv:

Derivation of Evolutionary Payoffs from Observable Behavior

Space-Time Sensors Using Multiple-Wave Atom Interferometry

Dark Matter from a Gas of Wormholes

Observable Topological Effects of Mobius Molecular Devices

How Long Should an Astronomical Paper be to Increase its Impact?

Holes ‘n’ spaces (part 1)

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

The best of the rest from the physics preprint server this week:

Matter-wave Cavity Gravimeter

Fractality Feature in Oil Price Fluctuations

Digital Control of Force Microscope Cantilevers Using a Field Programmable Gate Array

Modeling of Plasma-Assisted Conversion of Liquid Ethanol into Hydrogen Enriched Syngas in the Nonequilibrium Electric Discharge Plasma-Liquid System

Traversable Wormholes from Surgically Modified Schwarzschild Spacetimes

Art ‘n’ crafts (part 2)

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

More highlights from the physics arXiv this week:

The Cepheid Galactic Internet

More Really is Different

The Length of Time’s Arrow

Possibility of High Tc Superconductivity in Doped Graphene

Satellite Dynamics on the Laplace Surface

Art ‘n’ crafts (part 1)

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

The other highlights from the arXiv this week:

Maximum Size of Drops Levitated by an Air Cushion

How Cells Tiptoe on Adhesive Surfaces Before Sticking

The First-Mover Advantage in Scientific Publication

Primordial Nucleosynthesis: from Precision Cosmology to Fundamental Physics

Image of Another Universe Being Observed Through a Wormhole Throat

Rot ‘n’ decay (part 2)

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

More highlights from the arXiv this week:

Quantum Computing with Alkaline Earth Atoms

Graphene Nanodevices: Bridging Nanoelectronics and Subwavelength Optics

Observation of Quantum Capacitance of Individual Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Inferring Basic Parameters of the Geodynamo from Sequences of Polarity Reversals

Can Matter Wave Interferometer Detect Translational Speed?

Rot ‘n’ decay

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

The best of the rest from the physics arXiv this week:

Gravitational Time Advancement and its Possible Detection

How Hard Is Bribery in Elections?

On the Stability of Black Holes at the LHC

The Flavour of Inflation

Dante, Astrology and Astronomy