Thanksgiving

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When the Protein Data Bank releases a much-awaited protein structure which shows you *exactly* what you wanted to see, it's much like l...
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Good luck to B.R.S.M!

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B.R.S.M. is off to the US for a postdoc. And he does Woodward Wednesdays. What's not to like. 1. What is your message for BRSM? It...
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Chemistry, fluid dynamics and an awful radioactive mess

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When it comes to handling radioactive waste the Hanford site in western Washington state is the opposite of a role model. Ever since its r...

On synthesis, design and chemistry's outstanding philosophical problems

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Chemists need to move from designing structure - exemplified by this synthetic receptor - to designing function (Image: Max Planck Ins...
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George Whitesides on the responsibility of chemists and the future of chemistry

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Catching up on a few articles I had missed, I came across a characteristically deep and wide-ranging essay called " Assumptions ...
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Splenda and - wait for it - DDT? You've got to be kidding me

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Just when you think the perpetrators of chemophobia (actually this particular case makes chemophobia look like a knight in shining armor) c...
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Stephen Hawking's advice for twenty-first century grads: Embrace complexity

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Charles Joseph Minard's famous graph showing the decreasing size of Napoleon's Grande Armée as it marches to Moscow; a classic...

Some thoughts on the events around Boston

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We were enjoying a quiet evening of music and reading on Thursday when my wife alerted me to a message she got from the MIT emergency syste...
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Moore's Law for batteries: No dice

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The REVAi/G-Wiz i electric car charging at an on-street station in London (Image: Wikipedia Commons) Ever since Gordon Moore came u...
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Friday levity: 'Nature' discusses ghosts.

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One of the pleasures of thumbing through old issues of science journals is the opportunity to accidentally discover articles or letters tha...
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