Sunday, February 07, 2010

Reference Managers

Finding a good reference manager is a BIG DEAL if you need to write papers... And being a grad student means that sooner or latter, you NEED to write papers.
To Date I have mostly used JabRef however it is a bit limited, and doesn't seem to support inserting references into OpenOffice/Word very easily. Lately I've found:
Zotero
Mendeley
and
Bibus
All seem to have more features than JabRef, however I really like the online database/pdf storage options of Zotero, and it seems Mendeley is even better? I'll have to try them all out and see.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Carbon nanotube radios

I had a long chat with an old friend the other day (Jesse of Geek Club fame), somehow we manged to get onto the subject of carbon nanotube radios and brain implants. I imagine it is only a matter of time until someone figures out how to deliver these in pill form and target them to specific regions of the brain by attaching some sort of protein sorting domain... Then a little tweak with the right frequency when you walk into the supermarket will send you on a shopping binge without limit or control. Perhaps it could be put into vitamin pills ;)

Magnesium Brain Supplements

Since everyone can use a little more synaptic plasticity...

p.s. If magnesium-L-threonate (MgT) is available somewhere on the market, please let me know.