Forget the Cutting Edge – Embrace the Old-Tech Future

 By Josh Kearns Our society is pathologically enthralled with “the new.” As scientists and engineers, we’re inculcated starting from very

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Just So You Know

Recently Gabriela Solano and Alvin Menezes have joined our HR team. Initially, they will be staffing our internal positions and then positions within

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Water-Gen, an Israeli company, has developed a new Atmospheric Water-Generation Unit using its “GENius” heat exchanger to chill air and

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Doing Manual Labor for Sustainable Development Makes You Sexy

(or, A Hodge-Podge of Fact and Opinion) By Josh Kearns I’ve just returned from an arduous – but tremendously joyful – trip to a small village

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Another tool in the war against “superbugs”

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

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I’ve Got a BEEF with Sustainability

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

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Crowd Funded Low-Tech Cyanide Mitigation, Anyone?

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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(Bio-) Chemists Without Borders: Help Aqueous Solutions Hack Field E. coli Testing!

Biochemists and microbiologists: Aqueous Solutions has a mission for you. By Josh Kearns    I recently visited two village

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A Chemist’s Critique of Economics and “Sustainable Development”

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

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Making “Low-Tech” Biochar Adsorbent For Decentralized Water Treatment

 By Josh Kearns Readers of this blog probably don’t have to be told that the proliferation of synthetic chemicals over the past century has

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Ler Per Her Water Treatment Workshop

by Josh Kearns For this, my second post on the Chemists Without Borders blog, I had prepared a more “academic-sounding” post about Making

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Just So You Know

See the latest piece about Chemists Without Borders in Chemistry World, a news magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry –

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