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  • March 17, 2006: Lectures from MIT courses: text and video

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  • March 06, 2006: Two ‘must see’ movie clips: a) our world is simply somebody’s computer game b) the hound of Baskervilles was a robot:
    a) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8372603330420559198&q=spore
    b) http://www.bdi.com/content/sec.php?section=BigDog

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  • June 17, 2005: Chemical Engineers are at the University Open Doors day. Our demonstration tools included a model rectification column and fluidized bed reactor. Here are some pictures (more if you click on them): some demonstration tools on the left and Dr. Jennifer Skilling  representing our department on the right.

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  • June 17, 2005: Apparenty, to receive such a simple thing as an international conference travel grant from the Royal Society one has to be at his/her current academic position for at least 3 years. This does not apply to UK/EU researchers. Now let ’s imagine for a second two young lecturers at a Brisish University, one of them from the UK and another one, say, from Ukraine. Although, seemingly they belong to the same society, the researcher from Ukraine is not eligible for the Royal Society travel grant. Is it fair? When I pointed this out to a Royal Society representative, the reponse was: “ Yes, you just have to wait 3 years”.
    http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/funding.asp?id=2348

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  • June 17, 2005: Fantastic source of scientific photography: http://www.sciencephoto.com. I am placing here just too sample images of radiolaria and a flower in xray

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  • June 15, 2005: Interesting Russian resource on current nanotechnologies:
    http://www.nanonewsnet.ru
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