All Columns articles – Page 98
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Opinion
Editorial: In praise of risky science
Blue sky research is essential but how do we ensure it gets funding?
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Opinion
Chemical origins
I never cease to marvel at the number of eminent people in virtually every walk of life who started out as chemists.
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Opinion
Letters: October 2004
From Steve Jeffery Readers intrigued by Katharine Sanderson’s review of Carl Djerassi’s play Calculus (Chemistry World, September 2004, p64) and the rivalry between Newton and Leibniz might also be interested in author Neal Stephenson’s hugely ambitious and entertaining alternate history, the three volume Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The confusion, and System ...
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Opinion
Isn't science wonderful?
Physicists are lucky in that many of the fundamental principles of their subject have application in everyday life.
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Opinion
Editorial: Breaking a vicious circle
Karen Harries-Rees looks at the problems facing science education.
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Opinion
Letters: August 2004
From Norman Nicolson At last someone who is trying to strike a blow at the rubbish published in the newspapers in the name of science. I am a Guardian reader and have made similar comments in the Bad Science section of Guardian Unlimited. There is another writer of a similar ...
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Opinion
Sinigrin in the rain
It is part of Hollywood folklore that somebody was once raving to Ginger Rogers about what an amazing dancer her screen partner Fred Astaire was.
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Opinion
Letters: July 2004
From Jim Naismith University chemistry is in crisis. Many people, including myself in a Chemistry in Britain Comment [May, 2002], warned that on our current course we were headed towards this. Increased transparency of costing would reveal chemistry to be an expensive loss maker, coupled with the decreasing undergraduate ...
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RSC
Campaign underway
Simon Campbell unveils his plans to raise the profile of the chemical sciences.
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Opinion
The house that Black built
Name the French-born chemist who founded pneumatic chemistry, introduced the limewater test for carbon dioxide, discovered an element and pioneered the study of thermodynamics.
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Opinion
Letters: June 2004
From Susan Kelly, Coordinator -Chemistry, Thurston Community College Our chairman of governors was keen to draw our attention to [the RSC’s] article in The Daily Telegraph of February 18 2004, entitled ’British chemistry faces extinction’. We are a state school, of 1350 students, which as from September 2004 will have ...