All Culture and people articles – Page 82
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PodcastYou Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane – Book club
We talk about Janelle Shane’s dive into the depths of AI weirdness
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ReviewYou Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place
From giraffes to strange pickup lines, this delightful and often laugh-out-loud book will help anyone understand AI better
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NewsResearchers love their jobs but toxic competition and publishing pressures take their toll
Largest survey of its kind finds research culture is struggling – results that surprise few
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OpinionScience can’t fix Whitehall on its own
There seems to be a genuine effort to put science at the heart of the UK’s government but this comes with risks as well as rewards
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OpinionReviewing performance reviews
Assessing the value of researchers’ work is hard, but there are some easy ideas to avoid
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OpinionEllie Knaggs and tetrahedral carbon
Ellie Knaggs’ claim to be the first to use x-rays to prove carbon’s tetrahedral bonding in molecules has been overlooked, finds Andy Extance
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OpinionKrzysztof Matyjaszewski: 'In science, one needs to have a vision'
The polymerisation guru on taking work on honeymoon, the softest snow in the States and his favourite restaurant
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ReviewThe Life Scientific: Inventors
From the geneticist who cloned Dolly the sheep to the inventor of the battery bag, this book delves into the lives and ambitions of Britain’s trailblazing scientists
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NewsPlane shot down by Iran had dozens of Canadian scientists on board
Canadian academic community mourns the deaths of students and colleagues
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FeaturePolly Arnold’s diversity of interests
Kit Chapman asks the champion of actinide chemistry and diversity in science what comes next as she starts her new role at a US national lab
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ReviewScience in Moscow: Memorials of a Research Empire
A book cataloguing the monuments to Russia’s scientific past
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NewsHas the chemistry Nobel prize really become the biology prize?
Researchers digging into the data call for honesty and transparency on how the prize has changed over the years
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OpinionTwenty twenty vision
The new year brings changes to how we include and reflect our community
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RSCCelebrating the IYPT in style
To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT), the Royal Society of Chemistry led and supported community activities, educational initiatives and celebratory events globally in 2019
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OpinionThe story of Quickfit, part three: Scorah’s Quickfit
In the final part of our Classic Kit series, Andrea Sella delves into the life and work of Leslie Scorah, the patenter of Quickfit
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PodcastAntimony, Gold, and Jupiter’s Wolf by Peter Wothers – Book club
We talk about chemist Peter Wothers’ first popular science book that uncovers the surprising origins of the elements’ names
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ReviewAntimony, Gold, and Jupiter’s Wolf: How the Elements Were Named
Accessible to chemists and non-chemists alike, this book traces the evolution of our understanding of the nature of matter itself
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OpinionThe story of Quickfit, part two: Flaig’s joints
The second article in a Classic Kit series on Quickfit focuses on the family that introduced standardised ground glass joints to the UK
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NewsRogue Chinese geneticist jailed for his role in creation of gene-edited babies
Team leader He Jiankui sentenced to three years with another two researchers sent to prison