From this week's issue of Chemical and Engineering News:
- Cover story: Britt Erickson covers the use of silicone wristbands to track exposure of the general public to various chemicals of concern.
- What is the relationship between "it absorbed onto this silicone wristband" and "it made it into my bloodstream?"
- I learned a lot about the "bowtie method" of communicating risk and hazard assessment in Jyllian Kemsley's article.
- A radical route to chiral quaternary carbons. (article by Stu Borman)
- Scotts is ceasing the use of neonicotinoids. (article by Melody Bomgardner)
- Will be interesting to see if any of these moves will change the trajectory of honeybee populations in the US.
- "University leaders must take responsibility for lab safety, report says". (article by Andrea Widener, Jyllian Kemsley)
- I wish I could say I shed a lot of tears reading this report on problems in the Indian drug manufacturing industry, but I can't. (article by Jean-François Tremblay)
- People don't like "orgo." (People also seem to have forgotten that 'orgo' is an American regional phenomenon.)
I expect the only branch of chemistry to resist shortening in the long run will be analytical. Gen Chem and P-chem have already lost. It's only a matter of time for organic. I can say that I observed it going from Organic to Orgo or O-chem while I was a grad student.
ReplyDeleteOrgo does sound like a monster, as in "Orgo killed Godzilla's dream of becoming a physician." When will analytical chemistry become anal-chem?
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ReplyDeleteAnalytical chemistry already went through that unfortunate abbreviation. I remember going to poster sessions several years ago seeing the posting for that particular section.