reflection
My grandmother passed away this spring, aged 93. Yesterday my father brought the last of the furniture I have inherited from her and my grandfather. She was a cheerful, outgoing woman who had a habit of treating friends like family, and distant relatives like immediate relations. She was a keeper
culture
It's Nobel Prize season, and everyone has their picks for which chemists might get a phone call from Sweden. All the names I've seen are of accomplished people who've done excellent, influential work. There's a problem with all these lists, though: I
chemophobia
Back in January, @realscientists (I believe it was @upulie at the time) was talking about nanotechnology and mentioned the growing knowledge about hazards: For example, it was only some time after we started working with carbon nanotubes that it became apparent that we should introduce protocols for working with them.
history
"…the British chemist John Dalton (1766-1844) provided the basic theory: all matter–whether element, compound or mixture–is composed of small particles called atoms." – Ebbing and Gammon. General Chemistry, 8th ed. (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), 42. If the quoted text above were on Wikipedia, rather than in