All Columns articles – Page 92
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Opinion
Letters: September 2006
From Basil Walby As a statistician, former editor of The Analyst, and now a grumpy old man, I was disappointed to see that RSC Publishing is promoting spurious precision in its advertisement in Chemistry World (July 2006, p47). Impact factors are notoriously variable, making the quotation to ...
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Nutritional uncertainty
I sometimes wonder if Heisenberg wasn't a nutritionist rather than a physicist, because in terms of uncertainty, nutrition science currently takes the biscuit
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Your views: September 2006
Is insistence on the use of Iupac nomenclature diluting the rich traditional language of chemistry?
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OpinionRadioactive recommendations
The recent recommendations from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management should prompt a renewed research effort to tackle the problems of nuclear waste storage.
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Editorial: Evolution and evidence
I suspect most of our readers would agree with the statement, 'human beings, as we know them, developed from earlier species of animals'.
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Letters: August 2006
From Norman Nicolson The excellent article on serendipity missed one important event (Chemistry World, June 2006, p32). A chemist working for ICI wondered what used could be made of the blue sludge that had to be cleaned out of the bottom of the phthalimide reactor. This was made of ...
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Making sensors sensible
Researchers must consider how sensors can be manufactured reproducibly from the outset, and not as an afterthought, argues David Walt
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Editorial: Political decision making
The UK government had the chance this month to take some bold decisions in two seemingly disparate fields: nanotechnology and energy.
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Emissions of football
From a scientific point of view it's fair to say that currently it's the biochemistry of metatarsal healing that exercises most England fans' concerns
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Letters: July 2006
From Colin Britton I was most interested in the editorial (Chemistry World, June 2006, p2), ’covering the usual sort of stuff’, and recognising that the topics listed, including air quality, synthetic dyes tomatoes, etc, are just some of the things that chemists get up to. I would like to ...
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Jim Feast: making dreams reality
Jim Feast describes himself as a dreamer, but is keen to put his dreams into practice at the Royal Society of Chemistry
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The right kind of boredom
I have nights when I wake up at three and have great difficulty returning to that blissful state whence I came.