NASA IS BOMBING DA MOONZ! I actually saw someone saying that online… no… really. For several days the internet buzzed about the end of NASA’s LCROSS program. The LCROSS mission was designed to map the moon and attempt to discover water there. In its dramatic ending, the probe would crash into the lunar surface and throw up a plume of particles that a trailing spectrometer could analyze and search for…

I have a confession to make to all of K Exchange’s loyal readers. Before joining Knovel I was employed by a company that served the banking industry. As such, I’ve become fascinated by the differences between Engineers and Bankers. Aside from the obvious difference – Engineers work in Engineering, Bankers work in Banking – the subtle differences I’ve noticed are really what I find intriguing. One of these perceived subtleties…

Welcome to the Columbus Day edition of the Monday Link Review! We at K Exchange were considering taking the holiday off when we were asked the following question by one of our friends in the engineering biz: “why can’t engineers get Columbus Day off too??” And if you don’t get off for the holiday, than friends neither do we! So on to the links: Not quite news, but we unearthed…

The Knovel product development team will try to get a good night’s sleep tonight after the deployment of the latest round of changes coming from Knovel Lab into the daylight.  Our team is small and that makes us nimble; which is a good thing and what many software development organizations can only dream of. On the other hand, the news is out that our development team is (and has to…

Welcome to the first October edition of Monday Link Review, it’s exactly like the rest of our Monday Link Reviews, except this one requires a rake and a leaf bag. But enough about fall foliage, on to this week’s links. We want to start by congratulating UC San Francisco’s Elizabeth Blackburn for winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine for chromosome research. Speaking of scientists, the New Yorker last week took…