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Author Archives: stu
Some surprising silicon chemistry
Ever since Scott Denmark told me about a gem of a paper back at the Bürgenstock conference a few years, I’ve been meaning to blog about it. Well, today is as good a day as any* I suppose, so here … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Publishing
Tagged april, april 1st, april fools day, chemistry, d orbitals, dietmar seyferth, fools, fun, NMR, organosilicon, publishing, scientific literature, scott denmark, silicon
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How to make sloe gin… and a little bit of chemistry
First, the recipe. Making sloe gin really is as easy as 1, 2, 3… – it only requires three ingredients (a fourth is optional) and the particular ratio my recipe uses is 1:2:3 (sugar:sloes:gin). The recipe is easily scaled depending … Continue reading
Posted in Fun
Tagged blackthorn, bullace, chemistry, cherry plums, damsons, hedgerow, homemade, kitchen chemistry, liqueur, polyphenols, recipes, sloe, sloe gin, sloes, whisky, wild plums
107 Comments
A quantitative analysis of how often Nature gives a fuck
After seeing this tweet the other evening: Huge respect to @CSPO_ASU's Dan Sarewitz for getting the one word sentence "Bollocks" into @nature http://t.co/AQC4hdENMC — Jack Stilgoe (@Jackstilgoe) February 6, 2015 I started to wonder just how sweary Nature has been … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Journal stuff, Publishing
Tagged bollocks, copper nanotubes, fuck, george carlin, nature, pr4l, profanity, publishing, scientific literature, scientific publishing, swear words, swearing
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What if (I read more books this year)?
I read many books in 2014. Some of them I read so many times that I could probably recite them word-for-word. These books typically involved a gruffalo or the offspring of a gruffalo, however. And if there was no gruffalo … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, Life in general
Tagged gruffalos, moles, periodic table, randall munroe, reading list, to kill a mockingbird, what if?, xkcd
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Not that Noble
From Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie in 1856… Either this chap was publishing under a not-terribly-creative pseudonym, or someone at the editorial office got a bit confused…
Posted in Fun
Tagged alfred nobel, copy editing, fun, history, history of chemistry, nobel, publishing, scientific literature, scientific publishing
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I did a Nobel thing…
It’s difficult to make predictions, especially about the future – so said Niels Bohr (or maybe Yogi Berra, or Mark Twain or… boy, it’s hard to track down who *really* said something…). Anyway, @carmendrahl and @laurenkwolf from @cenmag were kind enough … Continue reading
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Tagged #chemnobel, c&en, chemistry, hangout, nobel, nobel predictions, nobel prize
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Animal authors
Earlier today, I noticed that Sylvain Deville had taken to Twitter to point out an unusual canine co-author on a scientific paper: Does this name rings a bell ? hint: #lordoftherings Turns out, it's also the 1st author's dog! http://t.co/T7ecRgJ42E … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Journal stuff, Publishing
Tagged authors, cat, dog, fun, geim, hamster, papers, publishing, scientific literature, scientific publishing, twitter
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The heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth?
OK, let’s make sure that we’re clear on the question first. By ‘heaviest’, I mean the element with the largest atomic number. By ‘naturally occurring’, I mean pretend that humans have never existed on this planet (probably would have turned … Continue reading
Posted in Quiz time!
Tagged americium, berkelium, californium, chemistry, curium, earth, einsteinium, elements, emsley, fermium, heaviest element, isotopes, naturally occurring, neptunium, neutron capture, plutonium, primordial elements, transuranic, uranium, wikipedia
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