All Culture and people articles – Page 88
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NewsWhite House education plan aims to increase diversity in Stem subjects
Strategy to recruiting more underrepresented minorities gets positive reception
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OpinionWhy the periodic table won't connect with the general public
‘Chemistry’ still has about as much resonance as ‘annual tax return’
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ReviewHello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine
Mathematician Hannah Fry explores the power and limitations of the algorithms that surround us
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NewsChemistry prof sues for $20m over alleged gender discrimination
University of Arizona chemistry professor launches class action lawsuit, says she and other female faculty were grossly underpaid, not promoted
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FeatureScience, suffrage and misogyny
100 years after women could first vote in UK general elections, Rachel Brazil looks back at their fight for professional equality in chemistry
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ReviewThe Rhubarb Connection and Other Revelations: The Everyday World of Metal Ions
Lars Öhrström and Jacques Covès tell the stories of the metal ions in modern technology and medicine
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NewsDatabase seeking to help to diversify chemistry gathers pace
More than 230 academic chemists who self-report as minorities have signed up and the website has inspired industry copycats
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PodcastI’m a Joke and So Are You by Robin Ince – Book club
Comedian Robin Ince explores what makes us human through conversations with fellow comics and scientists whose job it is to understand the human condition
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ReviewOrganic Chemistry for Babies
A chance for parents to start training the next generation of chemists
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BusinessSensing the sweet spot
Ziylo’s selective glucose-binding molecule could open doors to smart insulin for diabetes
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PuzzleOn the spot: Warming fire
Should you operate a wood-burning stove while taking medical oxygen?
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ReviewI’m a Joke and So Are You: A Comedian’s Take on What Makes Us Human
Robin Ince unravels the quirks of the human mind through conversations with psychologists, neuroscientists and fellow comedians
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PuzzleDecember 2018 puzzles: Jumbo CrOsSWORd
Download the puzzles from the December 2018 print issue of Chemistry World
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Opinion'I used to have a golden Rolls Royce...'
Peter Atkins on textbooks, Tibet and his legendary automobile
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ResearchSurface chemistry for biological questions
Rasmita Raval discusses her career exploring the complex behaviour of molecule–surface systems and what it has to do with antibiotic resistance and the origin of life
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NewsChemists Rosalind Franklin and Dorothy Hodgkin in the running for new face of £50 note
Other favourites to adorn the new polymer note are Stephen Hawking, Ada Lovelace and Margaret Thatcher
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OpinionWhy Dorothy Hodgkin belongs on the £50 banknote
The only British woman to win a Nobel prize in science deserves wider recognition