A list of small, useful things (links):
- The latest from Stellen für Chemiker
- The latest from All Things Metathesis
- Fun post at Sustainable Nano about the chemistry of fireflies
- Congrats to See Arr Oh for pointing out errors in this paper on Xinghaiamine A, and finally getting results three years later (as covered at In the Pipeline and Retraction Watch)
- Th'Gaussling on science outreach
- Interesting post on the ecological effects of palm plantations at Almost Like Science
- Nice post by Andre St. Amant on the Molecular Sieves Cult
- Check out this anti-chemophobia advertorial at the New York Times from Johnson and Johnson
- Fascinating that there is a second multinational corporation taking the public's fear of chemicals in their products head on
- Congratulations on the ten-year anniversary of Practical Fragments!
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.
Have a good weekend!
Have a good weekend!
Since that J&J is essentially a paid advert in NYT, I can imagine many of the chemophobes will brush it off as some sort of shill nonsense and continue on with their all-natural, anti-vaccination lives.
ReplyDeleteJ&J know all about the dangers of all-natural products! RE: talc powder
DeleteFireflies used to be abundant here in Delaware. My late father was an entomologist at Dupont - one of the first biology questions that I can recall asking him as a young child was "how fireflies worked" without fire. I remember dissecting one under his stereo microscope at work.
ReplyDeleteThings you remember...