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Backside attack 24 May 2012 | 02:35 am
At only twelve posts, Blackboards in Porn (SFW) is the best blog out there in units of awesome/post. In this blog, they rate the accuracy of blackboards in pornographic scenes where a typically male “...
TCNE: Molecular Magnet, Unicorn Killer 18 May 2012 | 08:39 pm
I’ve decided to quickly come back from the blogging dead to participate in ScienceGeist’s latest blog carnival, “Our Favorite Toxic Chemicals.” Now, as we all know, chemicals are bad for you and you ...
This could be an undergrad demonstration 2 Mar 2012 | 07:07 am
if pyridine wasn’t so stinky. Maybe one could use picoline? This is from ACIE 1978, 17, 569, a review article on the powers of aminopyridines, such as DMAP (4-dimethylaminopyridine)[1]: The enormous...
Is youth wasted on the young – day 3 at the AAAS 20 Feb 2012 | 07:20 am
Is youth waste on the young… scientists? That’s the provocative question Catherine Beaudry from the Ecole Poloytechnique de Montréal, Canada, posed on Saturday morning on day three of the AAAS. The V...
Is youth wasted on the young – day 3 at the AAAS 19 Feb 2012 | 10:20 pm
Is youth waste on the young… scientists? That’s the provocative question Catherine Beaudry from the Ecole Poloytechnique de Montréal, Canada, posed on Saturday morning on day three of the AAAS. The V...
Are You Scared Yet?** 19 Feb 2012 | 02:38 pm
Sensationalist journalism pervades our society. Usually, investigators focus their attention on stores, local government, unions, and the like. But chemistry labs...are they terrorist plots waiting to...
Opening ceremony of the AAAS 2012 conference 19 Feb 2012 | 07:08 am
Scale: Earth globe = size of my hotel room The Vancouver Conference Center sure is an imposing place. High ceilings and wall-length windows gazing to cloudy mountains and cold waters. Up above, strun...
Chemistry in the clouds – day 2 at the AAAS 19 Feb 2012 | 07:03 am
Day two at the AAAS meeting brought more interesting debate and discussion. Bright and early first thing in the morning Greg Scholes, from the University of Toronto, Canada, filling in for Graham Flem...
Are You Scared Yet?** 19 Feb 2012 | 05:38 am
Sensationalist journalism pervades our society. Usually, investigators focus their attention on stores, local government, unions, and the like. But chemistry labs…are they terrorist plots waiting to h...
A new way to study reaction mechanisms 19 Feb 2012 | 04:12 am
Readers of Anslyn and Dougherty can’t help but come away impressed with how much ingenuity goes into the determination of organic reaction mechanisms. Here’s an entirely new tool for this — Desorptio...
