Articles by Robert Aboukhalil
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How common is common knowledge?
This article appeared in the Spring 2013 issue of Current Exchange Magazine. “Proteins are the workhorses of the cell”. According to Google, some 42,800 articles...
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Q&A with Retraction Watch’s Ivan Oransky
Ivan Oransky is the vice president and global editorial director of MedPage Today. In 2010, he co-founded Retraction Watch, where he and others discuss the...
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Q&A: Physicist turned Cracked.com columnist
Luke McKinney did what anybody with three degrees in Physics would do: he became a humor writer for Cracked.com. Wait, what? Read on to find...
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Dr. Joe Incandela on the Higgs Boson
Dr. Joe Incandela is a professor of physics at the University of California Santa Barbara. At CERN, he also leads the Compact Muon Solenoid team,...
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Research Data Symposium 2013
Earlier today at Columbia University took place the Research Data Symposium 2013, a conference where scientists, journalists, publishers and librarians came together to discuss how...
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Is the Internet Made of Blue Cheese?
It’s often the simple questions that baffle us the most. For a society entrenched in technology, it seems silly to even entertain the question of...
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Don’t collaborate; Work together
In their spare time, many engineers and biologists enjoy writing philosophical letters to editors of scientific journals, claiming that the age of collaboration and multidisciplinary...
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International Startup Festival 2011
This year’s International Startup Festival took place in Montreal’s charming Old Port from July 13 to 15. The slogan of the festival was “Startups and...
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Antimatter is no laughing matter
Picture the night sky on a breezy May evening. Picture the moon, the stars and the other planets. Most of what you see from our...
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Cloud computing: a pie in the sky?
Back in the 1950’s, using a computer meant typing commands into a terminal, a machine which would route your requests to another, bigger machine, called...
