All Culture and people articles – Page 167
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CareersYou're hired
Alan Sugar’s latest apprentice is setting up a recruitment agency specialising in sectors that make a difference. Emma Davies finds out more
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OpinionDecisive uncertainty
When it comes to scientific advice, we should let the experts speak and improve our understanding of risk, says Síle Lane
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OpinionThe public: clients of science?
Should scientific advice inform or instruct? Steve Fuller says scientists should stick to the facts and let the public decide
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FeatureMaking pain history
From ancient folk remedy to the wonder drug of the early industrial age and beyond. Mike Sutton traces the remarkable history of aspirin
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OpinionFear of the unknown
How do you reconcile the need for personal safety with unfamiliar compounds, asks Derek Lowe
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FeatureBuilding better chemistry
Do lab buildings affect the work of the scientists inside them? James Mitchell Crow surveys some grand designs
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OpinionAutomatic for the chemist
How automatic structure elucidation could lead to more creative chemists
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Opinion30 Years ago: Endowment for Spinks Symposia
ICI creates £10,000 trust fund for a biennial symposium in honour of Alfred Spinks
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CareersOf castes and chemistry
From southern India to Northern Ireland, Geetha Srinivasan has been applying her research to solving real world problems, as Sarah Houlton finds out
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ReviewOrganic chemistry (2nd edn)
Jonathan Clayden, Nick Greeves and Stuart WarrenOxford University Press2012 | 1264pp | £44.99 (PB)ISBN 9780199270293It’s an interesting position to be in to review the second edition of a book that, quite frankly, I grew up with. Having started my undergraduate course in the same year that the first edition of ...
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CareersAllow me to demonstrate
As Peter Wothers gets ready to deliver this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures, Sarah Houlton finds out he’s had a lifetime of preparation
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News
Tragic death of Oxford astrophysicist
Steven Rawlings, co-author of maths books for chemists, was accidentally killed by his friend and colleague, the coroner has ruled