All Columns articles – Page 95
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Opinion
Your views: January 2005
Is the merger of chemistry departments to form broader science departments a good thing?
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Opinion
Letters: December 2004
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 ...
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RSC
Stepping up the pace
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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Opinion
Editorial: In praise of risky science
Blue sky research is essential but how do we ensure it gets funding?
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Opinion
Chemical origins
I never cease to marvel at the number of eminent people in virtually every walk of life who started out as chemists.
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Opinion
Letters: October 2004
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 ...
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Opinion
Isn't science wonderful?
Physicists are lucky in that many of the fundamental principles of their subject have application in everyday life.
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Opinion
Editorial: Breaking a vicious circle
Karen Harries-Rees looks at the problems facing science education.
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Opinion
Letters: August 2004
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 ...
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Opinion
Sinigrin in the rain
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.
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Opinion
Letters: July 2004
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 ...