All Last retort articles – Page 12
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Nutritional uncertainty
I sometimes wonder if Heisenberg wasn't a nutritionist rather than a physicist, because in terms of uncertainty, nutrition science currently takes the biscuit
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Emissions of football
From a scientific point of view it's fair to say that currently it's the biochemistry of metatarsal healing that exercises most England fans' concerns
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The right kind of boredom
I have nights when I wake up at three and have great difficulty returning to that blissful state whence I came.
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Patently interesting
As the world wide web continues to grow apace, the number of immensely useful sites also increases.
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The names of things
The great French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) understood the importance of names in science
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Understanding water
Funny stuff, water. The most abundant liquid on our planet, universal solvent, major constituent of all living matter; yet water is far from fully characterised
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The good, the bad and the ugly
Three events which together constitute the good, the bad and the ugly sides of a medical breakthrough
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Quorn and industrial espionage
The recent acquisition of Quorn by Premier Foods rekindles memories of one of the most audacious cases of industrial espionage.
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Cheering for your team
A scientist's love for a particular science can be as committed and irrational as a fan's love for a particular team
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You cannot express everything in Croatian
Croatian chemical nomenclature is in no way singular or peculiar.
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Bucket science
Lord Kelvin's bucket technique was easily arranged - cloudy skies are the East Midland's forte after all, and I had a bin liner handy - but to no avail.
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The rift between the arts and the sciences
It is almost 50 years since C P Snow first identified the rift between the 'two cultures' of the arts and the sciences
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Remembering Eric Voice
Last September the RSC lost a much-valued member. Eric Voice probably had more intimate knowledge of plutonium than anyone alive in the UK today.