A list of small, useful things (links):
- A new blog! Welcome to "The Compounds Turn."
- Melanie Nelson is offering her "How to Get a Job In Industry" webinar on September 20. Great use of $30, I feel.
- Latest chemistry retractions are in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, I see.
- Also, the Chinese Journal of Chemistry.
- Milkshake's story is complete, I note.
- Th'Gaussling and the eclipse
- The latest metathesis papers from All Things Metathesis
- The latest from Stellen für Chemiker
- Kat Day on black salve (Good Lord!)
- The Colorblind Chemist has an announcement.
- A chiral fragments poll from Practical Fragments
- This Vinay Prasad paper is causing quite a stir...
- Sam's got some pretty cool pictures there
- Seeing as how I am entering middle age (have been?), I enjoyed this post from Cloud
- Great little post from Philip Ball on chemistry, color and China.
Again, 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.
Thank you for the link to Cloud's blog. That was great to find.
ReplyDeleteI’m stunned by Milkshake’s story. It’s playing out like a modern day revenge tragedy. I recently saw a Royal Shakespeare Company performance of Titus Andronicus, one of my favorite early Shakespeare plays, and the Milkshake story hopefully won’t end with a meat pie being served to the new CEO and his university administrator wife.
ReplyDeleteRiffing on the revenge tragedy theme, they never end well for the protagonist, as Milkshake is unfortunately discovering with his frustrations of finding a new position.
I went into reading the story completely unaware. My first major chill was when I realized the first CEO was a hobbyist Ph.D. From wealthy family who was using the company (yes I remember it’s a work of fiction) to further his narcissistic goals and impress his family and party friends. Real world CEOs receive absurdly high compensation to keep their eyes 100% on the prize. Someone who has always had a lot of money is probably easier distracted by hobbies like showing up at the yacht club party with their homemade designer drugs. A scrappy rags to riches overachiever would be focused on leading the company to unicorn status and saving the lives of cancer patients as a collateral benefit.
Best wishes to Milkshake.