Small, useful things (links):
- Say, you know who blogs a lot? Naturalproductman.
- A post from Milkshake! It's like Christmas.
- Really interesting post on "surviving the transition to management" from Melanie Nelson.
- There should be a lot more goggle reviews from chemists, like this one from Ruth.
- Military nerds may enjoy this post about Star Wars and carrier air wings.
- Good coverage of Don Blankenship's trial from Celeste Monforton.
- If there was ever a CEO who deserved to be on trial...
- I'm no medical device expert, but it is interesting that St. Jude Medical* got a 483.
- I really like this profile of Cynthia Maryanoff.
- The latest from Practical Fragments; a sad note from Teddy Z about the trend of the last few years of papers coming out from shuttered R&D sites.
- Latest podcast on the 2015 Nobels from The Collapsed Wavefunction gang.
- ACS President Diane Grob Schmidt on what she's doing for industry members.
- I hope she's jawboning industry CTOs about jobs.
*corrected - thanks!
Uhm, that's St. Jude Medical in Minneapolis, not the research hospital in Tennessee. They aren't affiliated, to the best of my knowledge.
ReplyDeleteWe can what we must because we do.
ReplyDeleteFor the good of all of us...
ReplyDeleteI have fond memories of 29/32 joint size, because that is the standard intermediate size in Germany and Switzerland.
ReplyDeleteThe first response comment to the report on the Blankenship trial contains elements which could also sometimes be applied to the attitude in academia towards not only safety, but also what happens to PhD graduates after they have graduated:
ReplyDelete"What goes on in the minds of people like Blankenship? Are they complete psychopaths? Are they incapable of human empathy?
One wonder how many ventilation systems could be bought with the money spent on a trip to the Riviera.
Or how many dust respirators could be bought with the money spent to buy a corrupt judge.
Sometimes it seems like we still live in a very primitive society where people in leadership positions engage in what amounts to human sacrifice, and they do it for the purpose of gaining more wealth and more power. Meanwhile, everybody below the executive level is supposed to just ignore what is going on, and mind their own business if they want to keep their job.
If Blankenship gets off without punishment, the message to other mine owners will be that it is still acceptable to put profit far ahead of worker safety."
Poor SteveP, he has not heard about Patrick Harran. So naive.
DeleteMaybe if (when) Blankenship gets off he can apply for an R01? Seems to have the necessary qualifications.
Failed disk jockeys (i.e., conservative radio talk show hosts) would cite Mr. Blankenship's trial as an example of overregulation of an industry.
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