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ScienceMatters@Berkeley
ScienceMatters@Berkeley
09/22/2004 06:16 AM
David Pescovitz:
In this month's issue of my research digest ScienceMatters@Berkeley...
* Flipping the
Switch on Cancer: Improving the effectiveness of Cancer drugs one
molecule at a time.
* Think Molecularly, Act Globally: Studying the atmosphere from a
converted spy plane.
* Quantum Computing's Magnetic Attraction: A new spin on magnetic
atoms.
* The secret history of Vitamin B-12
Link
ScienceMatters@Berkeley for March
ScienceMatters@Berkeley for March
03/17/2005 03:56 AMDavid Pescovitz:
My March issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley is online. I hope you enjoy
it!
* Ring around the collar for chromosomes
* Rearing Rodents for behavioral insights
* Nanoscience imitating nature
LinkScienceMatters@Berkeley launches
ScienceMatters@Berkeley launches
06/17/2004 11:36 AM
Based on the model of
Lab Notes, my online
research digest from UC Berkeley Engineering, we've now launched a new
publication to focus on the sciences at the university. In
ScienceMatters@Berkeley, I'll report on mind-bending research in
physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics.
In the premier
issue:
* Crystallizing Nanoscience
* Hunting the Achilles' Heel of Hepatitis
* The Mysterious Matter of Dark Matter
If hope you enjoy it! If you do, please feel free to subscribe to the
email or RSS ScienceMatters digest.
LinkAnother issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley
Another issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley
07/19/2004 11:47 AM
My latest issue of ScienceMatters@Berkeley
is now online. While my
Lab Notes site
highlights interesting engineering research,
ScienceMatters explores
the physical sciences, biology, and chemistry. Inside this month's
issue:
* The Cellular Mechanic
* An Explosive Theory About Volcanoes
* The Mathematics of High-Tech Highways
Link
Lab Notes from UC Berkeley, April
edition
Lab Notes from UC Berkeley, April
edition
04/08/2005 12:19 PMDavid Pescovitz:
My April issue of Lab Notes from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering
is now online. Inside...
* Simulating You: Digital doppelgangers
for medical applications
* Hunting for Black Gold: Arming wild-catters with 3D
ultrasound
* Community Water Works: Cheap water purification for developing
nations
Link""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..."
""BERKELEY – With the Democratic
National Convention over and the
Republican one beginning next week, it
seemed a good time to check in with
George Lakoff, the UC Berkeley professor
of cognitive linguistics whose scrutiny
of the language of politics has..."
08/27/2004 01:45 PMRecent Forum Discussions (April 2 -
April 9, 2005)
Recent Forum Discussions (April 2 -
April 9, 2005)
04/09/2005 06:15 PMThe MacMerc Forums are
an excellent
place to ask questions about something you're trying to do with your
Mac or post
comments about the news floating around the Mac web. Here are a few
threads that
are looking for input:
As always, you can subscribe to the MacMerc Forums in your RSS reader
and keep
track of
just the new
thread titles or
verbose
coverage of all activity. Of course if you want to do more than
just lurk,
you're going to have to
regi
ster
with the forums and post!
Recent Forum Discussions (April 10 -
April 17, 2005)
Recent Forum Discussions (April 10 -
April 17, 2005)
04/17/2005 03:52 AMThe MacMerc Forums are
an excellent
place to ask questions about something you're trying to do with your
Mac or post
comments about the news floating around the Mac web. Here are a few
threads that
are looking for input:
As always, you can subscribe to the MacMerc Forums in your RSS reader
and keep
track of
just the new
thread titles or
verbose
coverage of all activity. Of course if you want to do more than
just lurk,
you're going to have to
regi
ster
with the forums and post!
Don't Let April 1 Be April "Phools" Day:
Federal Trade Commission, National
Consumers League and Microsoft Warn
Internet Users of Phishing Scams
Don't Let April 1 Be April "Phools" Day:
Federal Trade Commission, National
Consumers League and Microsoft Warn
Internet Users of Phishing Scams
03/31/2005 07:01 PMIn sharp contrast to the harmless pranks that will be played on April
Fools' Day, deceptive phishing schemes are no laughing matter. To
strike a blow against criminals who prey on Internet users, the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), National Consumers League and
Microsoft Corp. today urged consumers to beware of phishing schemes
aimed at stealing their identities.
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 10, 2005 - April 16,
2005 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 10, 2005 - April 16,
2005 Archives
04/11/2005 03:49 AMRepublican Shays jumps ship and calls DeLay an
"embarrassment." 4/11 .. one to jump
ship
talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_04_10.php#005391
track
this site | 3 links
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 03, 2005 - April 09,
2005 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 03, 2005 - April 09,
2005 Archives
04/09/2005 11:21 PMThe headline in .. Josh
Marshall
talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_04_03.php#005377track
this site | 3 links
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 18, 2004 - April 24,
2004 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 18, 2004 - April 24,
2004 Archives
04/20/2004 08:38 AMOfficial White House Response to the Bandar/Election Accusation ..
non-denials today they clearly are .. tried and tried and tried ..
Scott McClellan squirms! .. all over the deck .. Holy
shit
talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_04_18.php#002857
track
this site | 7 links
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 04, 2004 - April 10,
2004 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 04, 2004 - April 10,
2004 Archives
04/10/2004 08:47 AMDisgusting. More than 40% of Bush Presidency Spent at Ranch, Camp
David or Kennebunkport. 4/10 .. Josh Micah Marshall: .. put
it
talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_04_04.php#002829
track this
site | 6 links
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 11, 2004 - April 17,
2004 Archives
Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 11, 2004 - April 17,
2004 Archives
04/16/2004 06:11 AMThis is precisely the sort of inane mumbojumbo that will -- perhaps
literally -- get us all killed .. until obfuscate .. Joshua
Marshall
talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_04_11.php#002845track
this site | 5 links
"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 04, 2004 - April 10,
2004 Archives"
"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: April 04, 2004 - April 10,
2004 Archives"
04/12/2004 03:24 PMApril Fool's Day: April 1, 2005
April Fool's Day: April 1, 2005
04/01/2005 06:30 AM
Today is April Fool's Day so be wary of hoaxes and practical jokes,
especially at news sites.Despite the date, rumors that Mac OS X Tiger
will be anno...
Microsoft: Don't Let April 1 Be April
'Phools' Day
Microsoft: Don't Let April 1 Be April
'Phools' Day
04/02/2005 04:39 AMHostReview.com Apr 2 2005 7:48AM GMT
Matthew Yglesias: April 11, 2004 - April
17, 2004 Archives
Matthew Yglesias: April 11, 2004 - April
17, 2004 Archives
04/18/2004 08:22 AMWhat Yglesias says: .. mea sorta culpa .. seen the light ..
Thus
matthewyglesias.com/archives/week_2004_04_11.html#003105
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this site | 6 links
Redwood Dragon: April 18, 2004 - April
24, 2004 Archives
Redwood Dragon: April 18, 2004 - April
24, 2004 Archives
04/25/2004 10:02 PMdeclaring victory in the culture war .. Is nothing sacred?!? .. this
is a travesty ..
[LINK]
davetrowbridge.com/MT/archives/week_2004_04_18.html#001199
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this site | 4 links
Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9
Berkeley DB XML 2.0.9
01/03/2005 02:28 PMA native XML database with XQuery access.
Berkeley DB 4.2.52
Berkeley DB 4.2.52
04/13/2004 12:36 PMProvides embedded database support for traditional and client/server
application
Berkeley DB 4.3.27
Berkeley DB 4.3.27
01/03/2005 02:28 PMProvides embedded database support for traditional and client/server
application
How Berkeley Can You Be?
How Berkeley Can You Be?
10/29/2003 01:16 AM I finally got around to sorting through and captioning the photos I
took of the How Berkeley Can You Be? parade and Art Car fest that was
held in Berkeley at the end of September. Going through the pictures
reminded me of some of the reasons I like living in Berkeley so much.
Sure, people regularly overdo political correctness here, and there
were a lot of "Only in Berkeley" groups and moments in the parade, but
on the whole it was an amazing display of the diversity, creativity
and sense of humor that make this a fun place to live. There were also
a lot of self-mocking groups poking fun at Berkley. I love it when
people retain the ability to laugh at themselves, and it is a highly
desirable quality for living in Berkeley. Luckily, it is also a
frequently displayed quality. One of the stars of the parade was the
Sashimi Tabernacle Choir, an art car from Houston Texas, of all
places. 5 miles of wiring that must have taken months of work to put
together, all for a bunch of plastic fish and lobsters who sing while
being conducted by large crustacean. It sounds silly, but it was
wonderful. I could track its progress down University Avenue by the
gales of laughter is spawned as it passed by. After the parade, people
crowded around for hours and were treated to special performances by
the Choir. I got some good photos. If it comes to your town, don't
miss it. Or it even has its own website, with a very funny account of
its construction, you can check it out at
www.sashimitabernaclechoir.org....
Clueless in Berkeley
Clueless in Berkeley
07/12/2004 04:07 PMI have written before of my love for my favorite feature in the
Berkeley Daily Planet, the Police Blotter. Today while reading it, I
ran across this absolute gem which caused me to lose a mouthful of hot
Peet's coffee in front of the Cheeseboard. Knife-Wielder Earns
Cellular Domicile A 48-year-old Berkeley man found himself with a new
and tightly confined residence after police busted him for flashing a
knife at a fellow citizen near the corner of Center Street and Martin
Luther King Jr. Way at 9:37 a.m. Friday. The felon seems to have
overlooked that building on the corner and all those blue-clad
badge-wearing folks who pass through its portals en route to their
black-and-white cars. (For those of you unfamiliar with Berkeley
geography, our new police headquarters is at the corner of MLK and
Center.) How do you get a job writing stuff like this? I want one. It
made my day....
At CFP 2004 in Berkeley
At CFP 2004 in Berkeley
04/21/2004 12:54 PMThis week I'm at the ACM's 14th Conference on Computers, Freedom and
Privacy (CFP), at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley (walking distance
from my house). There are good sessions on issues such as e-voting and
digital rights management, and savvy...
Lab Notes from UC Berkeley
Lab Notes from UC Berkeley
12/11/2003 01:13 PMIn this issue of Lab Notes from UC Berkeley's College of Engineering:
* Grabbing waste heat from industry to warm your apartment
* Engineering our water resources against El Nino
* Simulating cyber-attacks on a microscale model of the Net
I hope you enjoy it!
LinkThe Berkeley Pit Mascot
The Berkeley Pit Mascot
04/14/2005 06:53 PM
"
The Auditor", an amazing dog,
lived a long life in one of the harshest
environments, the
Berkeley Pit in
Butte, Montana. The mine site has no vegetation, the water in the pit
is full of heavy metals and very acidic (pH 2.5) and yet the Auditor
held
on long after mining operations halted. He has inspired
a web site
and even an
art
project.
Discovering Berkeley DB
Discovering Berkeley DB
11/25/2003 10:23 PMI'm working on a project at the moment which involves exporting a
whole bunch of data out of an existing system. The system is written
in Perl and uses Berkeley DB files for most of its storage.
I'd never done anything with Berkeley DB before, but luckily Python
has a module which
seems to do all of the hard work for me:
>>> db = bsddb.btopen('xpand.db')
>>> db.keys()[0:10]
[':archives:index.html', ':art:test.html', ...
>>> db[':art:test.html']
'template;front.tp\x01\x01'
>>>
The Berkeley DB libraries are maintained by Sleepycat Software.
Unfortunately, their site is completely saturated with marketing
jargon. Our customers rely on
Berkeley DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data
management for their mission-critical applications
. Great - now
what does it do exactly?
Some digging around turned up the real information: the Berkeley DB Tutorial
and Reference Guide, which contains pretty much everything you
could possible want to know about the technology. It turns out that at
a basic level Berkeley DB is just a very high performance, reliable
way of persisting dictionary style data structures - anything where a
piece of data can be stored and looked up using a unique key. The key
and the value can each be up to 4 gigabytes in length and can consist
of anything that can be crammed in to a string of bytes, so what you
do with it is completely up to you. The only operations available are
"store this value under this key", "check if this key exists" and
"retrieve the value for this key" so conceptually it's pretty simple -
the complicated stuff all happens under the hood.
It seems like a great alternative to a full on relational database
for simple applications, although I'm slightly confused by the license
which allows free use for open source products but requires a license
for commercial applications. Does that mean that if I use the bsddb
Python module in a commercial app I need to get a license from
Sleepycat?
Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC
Sun and UC Berkeley are about to BOINC
12/17/2003 11:53 AMHunting aliens and beyond
Saturday is Cal Day (and bakesale day)
in Berkeley
Saturday is Cal Day (and bakesale day)
in Berkeley
04/17/2004 02:23 AMThis Saturday is Cal Day, when UC Berkeley has an open house all day.
Although it is supposedly geared towards prospective students, it's
lots of fun for everybody. For the autodidact, there are lots of free
lectures and demonstrations. I'd recommend Professor Tyrone Hayes'
lecture, Genetically Modified Weeds, Hermaphroditic Frogs, and
Premature Babies, if you can get yourself to the Valley Life Sciences
Building by 9 AM. Cal Day is also a great place to bring kids for the
day. There are lots of fun hands-on activities for kids of all ages.
We went last year (in the rain) and had a blast. Based on last year's
experiences, I would especially recommend Activities in Archaeology at
the Archaeological Research Facility, 2251 College Ave. for elementary
school age children. The university students were very sweet, and they
really set things up nicely for kids, with lots of interesting
activities, and the kids get to take the home the "artifacts" they
discover. The parents can watch hand tools being made from obsidian
and flint, just as our ancestors did 10,000 plus years ago. Another
good pick is visiting the usually pricey Art Museum or Lawrence Hall
of Science, both of which are free for the day. It would be hard to go
wrong taking a kid to Cal Day. As a final bonus, MoveOn activists are
holding their Bake Sale for Democracy Saturday, and there are 6 bake
sales being held within a mile of campus. Rumor has it that the
founders of MoveOn will be at Kerry's Benvenue Bake Sale for part of
the day. Highly recommended....
Flashing, Berkeley style
Flashing, Berkeley style
08/20/2004 11:35 PMFrom the ever amusing Berkeley police blotter: Exposer Stalks BART
Rider A woman arriving at the North Berkeley BART station last Friday
afternoon found herself being pursued by a not-so-gentlemanly fellow
who exposed his shortcomings before fleeing in his wheelchair. Only in
Berkeley can I imagine a wheelchair flasher....
Lab Notes from Berkeley Engineering
Lab Notes from Berkeley Engineering
05/12/2004 10:00 AM
In this issue of Lab Notes, my research digest from UC Berkeley's
College of Engineering:
* A.I. systems that uncover the needles in haystacks of data, from
software bugs to hidden genes.
* Using x-ray microscopes to design concrete Band-Aids for decaying
buildings and bridges.
* Medical imaging via modem that will enable remote village doctors to
perform minimally-invasive cancer surgery.
Link
BlogOn Blogs Berkeley
BlogOn Blogs Berkeley
07/08/2004 02:01 PMOne of the greatest reasons I love living in the Bay Area is for all
the great geeky events that...
New: Berkeley Packet Monitor 1.0
New: Berkeley Packet Monitor 1.0
07/27/2004 11:24 AMBerkeley Packet Monitor is a network traffic monitoring and diagnostic
utility that uses the Berkeley Packet Filter devices built into Mac OS
X.
Berkeley DB Java Edition 1.4.5
Berkeley DB Java Edition 1.4.5
05/03/2004 10:45 AMA transactional Java database.
Blogon Berkeley Style
Blogon Berkeley Style
07/17/2004 04:10 PMJoin us for a get together for BlogOn conference attendees, local
bloggers, techies, media folks, and anyone else who wants...
Pure Java Berkeley DB
Pure Java Berkeley DB
06/16/2004 09:14 PM
Wow. Pure Java edition
of Berkeley DB is out. I guess pure Java version of
Berkeley DB XML is coming
as well. As to the performance, I haven't checked it myself
but if this quote
means anything, I think this is a major event for Java developers:
"With Berkeley DB Java Edition, we have a simpler setup, a 3x
increase in data import
speed, a 5x increase in performance and a 10x decrease in disk
storage requirements."
-- Eric Jain, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Prostitution to be legalized in
Berkeley?
Prostitution to be legalized in
Berkeley?
07/07/2004 02:35 PMThis article in the SF Bay Guardian reports on
a new ballot meaure in Berkeley, California to legalize prostitution
-- another measure in SF is on the way.
Link
(
Thanks, Creative_ten
!)
Berkeley DB Java Edition 1.5.0
Berkeley DB Java Edition 1.5.0
06/16/2004 01:30 PMA transactional Java database.
Grok Description matches for ScienceMatters@Berkeley for April
GrokA matches for ScienceMatters@Berkeley for April
ScienceMatters@Berkeley for April
* Berkeley's Star Planet Hunter: Geoffrey Marcy's search for other
Earths