All Columns articles – Page 95
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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 ...
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RSC
Campaign underway
Simon Campbell unveils his plans to raise the profile of the chemical sciences.
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Opinion
The house that Black built
Name the French-born chemist who founded pneumatic chemistry, introduced the limewater test for carbon dioxide, discovered an element and pioneered the study of thermodynamics.
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Opinion
Letters: June 2004
From Susan Kelly, Coordinator -Chemistry, Thurston Community College Our chairman of governors was keen to draw our attention to [the RSC’s] article in The Daily Telegraph of February 18 2004, entitled ’British chemistry faces extinction’. We are a state school, of 1350 students, which as from September 2004 will have ...
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Opinion
Don't try this at home
One of the more extreme pieces of television from last year came in the form of the BBC documentary Bodysnatchers.
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Opinion
Back to the Bachelor?
Terry Mitchell looks at the problems of implementing the Bologna process.
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Opinion
Letters: May 2004
From David Tilbrook The Knovel service the RSC has provided is exceptional! Congratulations. At last [RSC] membership is delivering something of real practical benefit to the practising chemists in the country. I would make one comment though. You aren’t advertising this service very much and it is a real membership ...
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Opinion
Fragrant bouquet
As an octogenarian, I was recently pondering some of the more interesting facets of my life in the field of metals chemistry.
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Opinion
Witch way to pay
In the light of ongoing financial problems faced by most UK chemistry departments.