All Columns articles – Page 95

  • Opinion

    Your views: January 2005

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    Is the merger of chemistry departments to form broader science departments a good thing?

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    Flashback

    2004-12-01T00:00:00Z

    December - 20 years ago, 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 120 years ago, 160 years ago

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    Sad and envy

    2004-12-01T00:00:00Z

    2004: how was it 4 U?

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    Letters: December 2004

    2004-12-01T00:00:00Z

    From Alberto Nunez Selles, president, Cuban Chemical Society My sincere congratulations for your article Biotechnology: the 2nd Cuban revolution (Chemistry World, November, 2004, p38) giving an objective picture of present bioscience and chemistry R&D in Cuba. Just for historical reasons, I wish to call your attention to a pitfall in ...

  • RSC

    Stepping up the pace

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Simon Campbell believes the Royal Society of Chemistry has a unique opportunity to modernise governance to better meet its internal and external challenges.

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    Flashback

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    October - 80 years ago; 100 years ago; 100 years ago; 125 years ago

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    Editorial: In praise of risky science

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    Blue sky research is essential but how do we ensure it gets funding?

  • Opinion

    Chemical origins

    2004-10-01T00:00:00Z

    I never cease to marvel at the number of eminent people in virtually every walk of life who started out as chemists.

  • Opinion

    Letters: October 2004

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    From Steve Jeffery Readers intrigued by Katharine Sanderson’s review of Carl Djerassi’s play Calculus (Chemistry World, September 2004, p64) and the rivalry between Newton and Leibniz might also be interested in author Neal Stephenson’s hugely ambitious and entertaining alternate history, the three volume Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The confusion, and System ...

  • Opinion

    Isn't science wonderful?

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Physicists are lucky in that many of the fundamental principles of their subject have application in everyday life.

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    Flashback

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    September - 20 years ago; 75 years ago; 130 years ago; 175 years ago; 250 years ago

  • Opinion

    Letters: September 2004

    2004-09-01T00:00:00Z

    From R J Rathbone

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    Flashback

    2004-08-01T00:00:00Z

    August - 35 years ago; 65 years ago; 95 years ago; 145 years ago; 230 years ago

  • Opinion

    A wild goose chase

    2004-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Thiol and error, or a wild goose chase.

  • Opinion

    Editorial: Breaking a vicious circle

    2004-08-01T00:00:00Z

    Karen Harries-Rees looks at the problems facing science education.

  • Opinion

    Letters: August 2004

    2004-08-01T00:00:00Z

    From Norman Nicolson At last someone who is trying to strike a blow at the rubbish published in the newspapers in the name of science. I am a Guardian reader and have made similar comments in the Bad Science section of Guardian Unlimited. There is another writer of a similar ...

  • Opinion

    Sinigrin in the rain

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    It is part of Hollywood folklore that somebody was once raving to Ginger Rogers about what an amazing dancer her screen partner Fred Astaire was.

  • Opinion

    Flashback

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    July - 25 years ago; 70 years ago; 85 years ago; 150 years ago;

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    It's not such a funny old 'chemical' world

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    Nina Hall is not amused.

  • Opinion

    Letters: July 2004

    2004-07-01T00:00:00Z

    From Jim Naismith University chemistry is in crisis. Many people, including myself in a Chemistry in Britain Comment [May, 2002], warned that on our current course we were headed towards this. Increased transparency of costing would reveal chemistry to be an expensive loss maker, coupled with the decreasing undergraduate ...