A few of the articles in this week's C&EN:
- Mitch Jacoby explores the use of synchotrons for materials science.
- Sarah Everts looks at the advanced anti-doping testing being used at the Olympics.
- Is anyone else ready for an "all-doping" Olympics just to see what would happen?
- Jean-François Tremblay covers a report from a Chinese NGO about rare earth mining.
- The Chemical Safety Board issued a report about the alkylation unit at a Tesoro refinery (article by Jeff Johnson.)
- Phil Baran wins the 2016 Blavatnik National Award in chemistry.
- I'd like to know how this letter to the editor isn't basically an informal publication of experimental results.
The cynics would say that the 'ass-doping' Olympics is called the Olympics
ReplyDeletethat was an unfortunate typo on my part, it should read 'all-doping' but you have to inject those PEDs somewhere
DeleteA little shaky on the dismount but stuck the landing.
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Delete"I think pro-athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create!" -Daniel Tosh
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ReplyDeleteFrom the letter, it seems to me that David Badger suggested oxalic acid could be formed from carbon dioxide and water shortly after Sayre presented his results in 1993. This would make Sayre's letter a reminiscence and not a presentation of new work.
Fair enough.
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