All Columns articles – Page 69
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Opinion
Oinking and squawking
There's been lot of oinking and squawking over recent scares about swine flu and bird flu
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Letters: July 2010
Like Pickard (Chemistry World, May 2010, p40), I am disappointed that the BBC did not find a chemist to present Chemistry: a volatile history, but I am not amazed that a physicist, Jim Al-Khalili, ’made an excellent job of it’. After all, chemistry is a physical science. The Royal Society ...
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Serving both music and chemistry
Borodin wasn't such an outstanding scientist after all, says Philip Ball, but science and music are far from mutually exclusive
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Morton flask
Baldassarre Castiglione wrote that the perfect gentleman should 'affect in all things sprezzatura' - artful effortlessness
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A dramatic experiment
I once conducted a dramatic experiment for a BBC TV programme on chemistry
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Letters: June 2010
German Chancellor Angela Merkel received the Royal Society's King Charles II medal
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The future of crystallography
Man and the machine: Philip Ball welcomes the age of automated chemical crystallography
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If something can’t go on, then it won’t
Derek Lowe looks into his crystal ball to see what the future of medicinal chemistry might be