Chemists Without Borders holds open conference calls twice a month (see here for details), in which I encourage you to participate. This Thursday at 6 PM PDT, we will start a discussion of social styles and how understanding them can have amazing results. Whether we are chemists or not, much of what we do involves …
Another interesting piece, “Potentially hazardous arsenic-containing compounds are characterized”, by Carrie Arnold, in Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News – Arsenolipids In Fish Oil, August 11, 2008, Volume 86, Number 32, p. 10. It seems the fish we’ve been encouraged to eat may contain arsenic. We usually just worry about drinking water, whether here in …
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Chemical & Engineering News: Government & Policy – Francis Collins Leaves NIH: “August 4, 2008, Volume 86, Number 31, pp. 33-35 Francis Collins Leaves NIHAfter 15 years at the helm, Genomics Institute Director steps downby Susan R. Morrissey”This was an interesting article about Francis Collins that brought a bunch of questions to mind, questions to …
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Here’s another useful tool. By the way, immediately after clicking Publish Post, please select Edit and add the appropriate tags for the piece you are adding. What is BlogThis! ?: BlogThis! is an easy way to make a blog post without visiting blogger.com. Once you add the BlogThis! link to your browser’s toolbar, blogging will …
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How to Log on and Clock In – Solutions by PC Magazine Here’s a nice summary of how various online software tools could be used by any member of the team who has internet access, regardless of location. These include a universally accessible desktop, instant messaging, mind-mapping, office suite with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation, …
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Instant-Messagers Really Are About Six Degrees from Kevin Bacon – washingtonpost.com Here is one of the keys to our impact. Consider some numbers: the American Chemical Society has over 160,000 members; the American Medical Association has over 360,000 members. Suppose we assume that there are a like number in the rest of the world. That …
I didn’t find a link for this. The column is called Figuratively Speaking, August 3, 2008. How novel it is, I don’t know, but it bears repeating, and repeating, and repeating, and repeating, and repeating, and ……. A picture of a starving African baby in its mother’s arms tops the column; the caption is, “What’s …
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