Fire at the regional trade union council building in Odessa, Ukraine Photo: Barcroft Media In the midst of the Ukrainian crisis, tactics reminiscent

We are speaking at the 248th ACS National Meeting & Exposition on August 10-14, 2014 in San Francisco, CA USA.  Chemists Without Borders

It amazes me how smart some people are.  At 15 I was just trying to learn to drive a car; Ann Makosinski from British Columbia invented a

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Researchers have developed a new polymyxin-like lipopeptide to kill multidrug-resistant microbes (superbugs).  In the past, when facing bacteria

By Josh Kearns I’ve had a lot of unpopular ideas. Maybe the all-time most unpopular, though, is this one: The relatively short trips made by

By Josh Kearns Crowdsourcing is by now thoroughly established as an internet meme. How do I know this? Because I’m aware of it. Compared to

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Part I: Contemplation of the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) Author’s note        This post is a bit longer