All Columns articles – Page 80
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Opinion
Letters: October 2008
With reference to your interview with the new head of the ACC, Cal Dooley (Chemistry World , September 2008, p9), bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates are just two of several hundred chemicals that exhibit oestrogenic activity (EA) in plastics. These chemicals leach from almost all plastics sold today, including polyethylene, ...
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Is the time ripe for a new second?
Philip Ball asks if you can spare him 429 228 004 229 952 oscillations of your time
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Editorial: Launch of the LHC
The Large Hadron Collider captured the public's imagination but is it time to reconsider funding for particle physics?
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Starting early
My first memory of being taught chemistry is being told to learn the names of all the elements, in order.
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OpinionRaschig's rings
Few who have listened to the music of Richard Wagner can remain indifferent to it.
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Opinion
Letters: September 2008
I would suggest that many of the issues cited as influencing women’s decisions to stay in academic science ( Chemistry World , August 2008, p8) are equally relevant to men’s decisions: the extreme competition for lectureships; fighting for funding; and long antisocial hours. These affect all new academics equally. ...
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Fitting science into fiction
You don't need to understand the science bits, says Philip Ball, just what they represent
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A means to an end
Derek Lowe remembers leaving the ivory towers of academe to trade 'unusual and beautiful' for 'useful'
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Editorial: Water scarcity
One third of the world's population already lives in water-scarce areas.
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Silly putty
When the magazine New Scientist was started in 1958, each reviewer also got a little brown sample of 'silly putty'
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Reaction variety – the spice of life?
Derek Lowe is looking for a little more variety among his reactions
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Editorial: Retaining talent
Academic chemistry is a less welcoming environment for women than it is for men
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Unbalanced DNA
If DNA polymerisation is reversible, asks Philip Ball, why don't we end up with some static equilibrium?