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Small, useful things (links): 

• Shane Caldwell writes about thial-S-oxides.
• The latest Chemical Dependence podcast is about black pepper.
• Good news on the employment front, with 242,000 new jobs in February and the unemployment rate is at 4.9%. 
• Some PR firm must be ghostwriting these "skills gap" pieces for CEOs and the such, 
• Ever wonder what it is like to attend a program at the London Business School? Hear from the Cubist Crystal blog. 
• The latest from Stellen Fuer Chemiker for February 29.
• Want to find out what it's like to be a Chemical Safety Board investigator? Find out from Mary Beth Mulcahy, over at Jyllian's blog. 
• I enjoyed this post about platinum at the Industry Voices blog at ACS.
• If you enjoy the whole retraction game, this one about a group of Chinese researchers referencing "the Creator" in PLoS One is just bizarre and fascinating. 
• My take: I strongly suspect this is a translation/cultural difference, and not an attempt to inject intelligent design into a scientific paper.
• Nice list of resources for post-Ph.D. careers by Boaz Vilozny. 

Readers, an open invitation to all interested in writing a blog, a hobby that will bring you millions thousands hundreds tens of dollars joy and happiness. Send me a link to your post, and I'd be happy to put it up.