The Good News: Google Scholar, which is the part of Google that indexes scholarly literature, includes some citations to books as well as to journal articles. The Bad News: If […]
PubMed Is the Answer!
Maybe PubMed isn’t the answer to *everything*, but this extraordinary database has the answers to most things related to medicine, biochemistry, and other biomedical sciences. The PubMed workshop will be held […]
Worked Problems and Solutions
You have a problem set due in thermo or orgo, but you’re having trouble following the steps about how to solve certain kinds of problems. The library has books full […]
How E-Books Work
Attend E-books for Academics , a library workshop held on Wednesday, October 5, 4:30-5:30PM, on Q level of the library (in the CER, past Cafe Q, last door on your left). […]
New Things To Read and More Ways To Read Them
The world of online reading is exploding with new kinds of content (as well as new business models to generate revenue for the publishers and authors). Here are some of […]
Robots and Robotics
Human beings have been fascinated by robots for hundreds of years. A robot is a “machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (as walking or talking) […]
August in Catalyst
It’s August, so I’m thinking about August. Part of thinking about August is remembering all of the things to do to prepare for the upcoming semester, including playing with the […]
Let’s Talk About Chocolate.
In 2009, in the United States, retail sales of chocolate were about $17.3 billion. Oh, you’re not surprised at all by this huge number? You want to move along to […]
For Scholars Who Like Vampires
For those of you who are scholars, appreciate scholars, want to be a scholar, or know any scholars, here are my picks for extremely fun and actually intelligent books whose […]
Nanotech Event
JHU’s Institute for NanoBioTechnology now has a center for Engineering in Oncology. How fitting, then, that this year’s annual symposium, held May 13, is entitled Nanotechnology for Cancer Medicine. The […]