Peter Murray-Rust and the Concept of “Pauling Numbers”

We are delighted, on many levels, to have added Peter Murray-Rust’s blog to our gradually expanding Blogroll.  A faculty member of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Murray-Rust shares our interests in, among other topics, chemistry, xml and open access to information.
He and his team have developed a Chemical Markup Language, or CML, [...]

Reflections on Year One of The Pauling Blog

Today marks the first anniversary of The Pauling Blog, and in celebration we’re announcing a new addition to our blogroll, archivematica.
Over the past few months, The Pauling Blog has featured a number of posts on our digitization projects which have, in turn, garnered a fairly-substantial amount of reader interest. While we will continue to [...]

Physics and Physicists Hits the Blogroll

The Pauling Blog recently discovered Physics and Physicists, a blog about – you guessed it – all things physics.  The blogger behind it all, ZapperZ, keeps his readers updated on events within the physics community, discussing everything from politics to academia to pure science.  For those readers who enjoyed our posts on quantum mechanics and [...]

Homunculus Joins the Blogroll

Philip Ball, a successful London-based writer, currently publishes for Nature’s online news site and runs a science blog entitled Homunculus. He regularly reposts his Nature articles on the blog and discusses a wide variety of scientific papers, articles, news and research. From chemistry to computer tech, Ball’s blog covers it all, often combining [...]

And the Blogroll Grows

We’ve recently added Gustav Holmberg’s blog, Imaginary Magnitude, to our blogroll.  This sleek, no nonsense weblog is focused on the history of science.  Holmberg himself is a historian of science at the Research Policy Institute in Sweden.  He’s been in the blogging game since 2003 and the Imaginary Magnitude archives are filled with interesting little [...]

Blogroll Updates

If you’ll please turn your attentions to the right side of this page, you’ll note the long-awaited addition of three new links to our blogroll. Each represents a fantastic resource that, we’re quite sure, will make for some interesting reading.
The Culture of Chemistry is run by Michelle Francl, a chemistry professor at Bryn Mawr [...]

Summer Makeover

We’re taking a break today from the usual Pauling-related content to make a few announcements about the blog.
Inspired by the beautiful summer weather, we decided that it was time for the site  to change out of its winter clothes.  As a result, you’ll notice that we’re sporting a new design (Digg 3 Column by [...]