A small list of useful things (links):
Again, an open invitation to all interested in writing a blog, a hobby that will bring you - If you haven't read this story about Brian Wansink, you really should give it a read. What a story.
- Basically, thanks to a mostly terrible (now deleted) blog post, a small raft of papers around food/behavioral science have been retracted or corrected.
- I really enjoyed this piece about long-haul moving truckers.
- (I guess I won't be looking at long-haul trucker as my backup career.)
- What to know before starting your Ph.D. program, by Maggie Kuo (featuring a number of chemists)
- Nobel Prize predictions: from Sam, and Ash
- A fun post by Science Shenanigans about the Ig Nobels
- A couple posts from Sustainable Nano
- The latest from Stellen für Chemiker
- The latest roundup at All Things Metathesis from Adam Johns
- Nice writeup by Neal Anderson of methods to remove ruthenium from metathesis reactions.
Have a good weekend!
Ru is really highly thiophilic - any nonstinky water soluble thiol like cysteine, N-acetylcysteine, thiosalicylic acid or thiosulfate can be used to remove Ru from organic phase
ReplyDeleteI should mention that Ru toxicity is pretty low, the indazole-chlororuthenium complex IT-139 (aka KP1339) was dosed intravenously up to 700mg per patient and dose (the ultimate breakdwon prodct of the drug is inorganic Ru)
A book waiting to be written: The Long Haul: A Postdoc's Tales of "Life" in the Lab.
ReplyDeleteI cannot see CRISPR getting the nobel prize until the drama surrounding it dies down, not to mention its apparent flaws now showing in mice.
ReplyDeleteMy palms get sweaty when I see tractor-trailers in Manhattan. I've never driven anything bigger than a pickup truck there, but that was enough to show the chaos of traffic (and remind me that less visibility from the driver's seat is always worse...).
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