• This week on Chemistry World

    Updated: 2011-10-31 15:16:35
    30 October 2011: Have something to say about an article you’ve read on Chemistry World this week? Leave your comments below… The kilogram is dead! Long live the kilogram! Four of the base SI units, including the kilogram and mole, are set to be redefined

  • Not sure how to use Tanabe-Sugano diagram for 3 peaks

    Updated: 2011-10-31 00:52:50
    The spectrum of [Ni(Metu)6]2+ (Metu = N-methylythiourea) has peaks of moderate intensity at 8800, 13,100 and 19,800 cm-1. Estimate the value of Dq and B.

  • Gold Rush Alaska. Getting the pay out of paydirt.

    Updated: 2011-10-30 00:09:52
    So I’ll come clean. I am a fan of Gold Rush Alaska on the Discovery Channel. The new season has started with some serious twists. What I like about the show is the technical side. The miners are struggling with serious mechanical problems and difficult issues with unit operations in placer mining. This is what made [...]

  • Random Tuesday #2: Organic Chemistry of Terra Nova

    Updated: 2011-10-25 07:00:31
    Fox's new show Terra Nova featured some Organic Chemistry love in a recent episode titled Genesis. The show takes place in 2149 and Organic Chemistry has progressed to a state where any medical doctor can create an exotic extinct pheromone from scratch and within minutes. Some screen caps are below. You can download episodes from [...]

  • This week on Chemistry World

    Updated: 2011-10-24 11:51:32
    23 October 2011: Have something to say about an article you’ve read on Chemistry World this week? Leave your comments below… Almac to hire 500 in next year The Northern Ireland based company has increased its workforce six fold in the last 5 years to over 3000 Graphene and zeolite team up for catalysis Graphene enhances the photocatalytic activity [...]

  • What is evil?

    Updated: 2011-10-19 23:04:35
    One of the things that neuroscience is doing today is the mechanistic examination of many conditions that we previously assumed to exist. Like the matter of evil. This concept is deeply embedded into culture and most of us are born, live, and die in a world where we assume there is a real metaphysical condition called ”evil”. [...]

  • Refractory Problem

    Updated: 2011-10-19 05:44:05
    Here is an interesting problem. How do you analyze refractory materials? What if you are making materials that could be used as a crucible raw material? How do you digest refractory materials down to homogeneous solutions that themselves need to be contained in something even more refractory? Obviously, it is done all of the time. [...]

  • Cheap Laugh Tuesdays #8: Bad Cholesterol

    Updated: 2011-10-18 14:03:06
    Welcome back to CLT! Had my employer-sponsored annual health screening today. Reminded me of this one. See more CLT humor! via Bloomenkraft Enjoy!

  • This week on Chemistry World

    Updated: 2011-10-17 15:16:25
    16 October 2011: Have something to say about an article you’ve read on Chemistry World this week? Leave your comments below… Abbott splits to set pharma portfolio free US drug maker divides the firm into two parts as part of a rebalancing strategy EU proposes nanomaterial definition The chemical industry says it’s too broad; the environmental lobby says it’s [...]

  • Random Tuesday #1

    Updated: 2011-10-17 09:01:18
    Azmanam has his Cheap Laugh Tuesdays and I'm joining in on the Tuesday fun with a chemistry related image or video from the internet. Below is a picture of the newly renovated bathrooms in the chemistry wing at Simon Frase University. Image courtesy of SCUD. Mitch

  • Crazy Time

    Updated: 2011-10-17 01:09:35
    Work has been a seamless stretch of insane activity 24/7. An extended manic episode of multi-tasking and over-commitment. Nervously, we juggle chainsaws and flaming bowling balls on deck while the bow submarines into the swells. The gales of fortune tear at the spinnaker as every square foot of canvas strains to pull the ship forward. Coworkers are mind-numb [...]

  • Dearly Departed

    Updated: 2011-10-14 06:57:32
    Our next play, Dearly Departed, is in production. I play a character named Royce. This part has some pretty good lines. I’ve always played some fairly minor characters. The trick is to always do your best no matter what the part. A play is an ethereal being that lives for about 2 hours and then folds [...]

  • Imagine a Better Microsoft

    Updated: 2011-10-13 15:47:11
    Imagine this. Imagine having a form of payment that requires the payee to change the manner in which they receive and deposit their payment. Imagine a system in which the currency in circulation is “upgraded” periodically and that within 8 or 10 years, the previous versions are no longer “supported” by the banking system. Still [...]

  • Theories X and Y

    Updated: 2011-10-12 23:47:04
    Just for grins you should look up the Wikipedia page describing management Theory X and Theory Y. Anything look familiar?? This is what B-School faculty do. Which theory do you think Stalin subscribed to? Which theory does your organization follow?  Hey man. Sign me up for an MBA program. Of course, these are book end theories. [...]

  • Cheap Laugh TuesdaysWednesdays #7: Duct Tape Bonds

    Updated: 2011-10-12 14:15:25
    Welcome back to CLT! Sorry for it being Wednesday... See other CLT humor via Loose Parts Enjoy!

  • Thus Spake George

    Updated: 2011-10-10 20:20:23
    Time for some full frontal iconoclasm. Going over back issues of C&EN I found an article in the Sept 5th, 2011, issue, p. 14, that struck my interest.  Well, interest is the wrong word. The article opens with George Whitesides saying- As many as 100,000 new jobs for chemists could be created in the next [...]

  • Open Babel paper published in Journal of Cheminformatics

    Updated: 2011-10-10 14:03:23
    Categories All OA in the Developing World Editorial Board Open Access Conferences Presentations Chemistry General Marketing About We want to hear from you Mail us at editorial chemistrycentral.com Search Links Our blogs BioMed Central Blog Chemistry Central Blog Open Repository Blog Open Access Central BioMed Central Chemistry Central Other links F1000 Biology F1000 Medicine ChEBI Chem DB ChemRefer ChemSpider Chemists Without Borders Experimental Data Checker IUPAC Links for Chemists Process Analytical Technology PubChem WebElements eMolecules Archive October 2011 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Today Chemistry Central Blog Monday Oct 10, 2011 Open Babel paper published in Journal of Cheminformatics Open Babel

  • HPGe Detector, Part III: Gamma Rays From (A,P) Reactions

    Updated: 2011-10-06 08:02:35
    Here are a series of experiments involving alpha particle transmutation of light elements and detection of the resulting gamma radiation signatures.  Such reactions, mostly of the (a,p) type (i.e., the alpha particle is captured and a proton is ejected), stand out for their remarkable accessibility: No particle accelerators, no vacuum environment, no dangerous and specifically-licensed [...]

  • SCIAM

    Updated: 2011-10-05 07:13:02
    A thousand monkeys on typewriters pecking away.

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