All Last retort articles – Page 11
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Dragon sausages
The recent threat of trading standards action against Welsh sausage maker Black Mountains Smokery has been the subject of much press interest here in the UK
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Writers block
It used to be held that the cure for writer's block was to gaze fixedly at a blank sheet of paper until beads of blood formed on your forehead
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Reality television
With the growth in popularity of 'reality' television series and hard-nosed quiz shows continuing unabated, it's good to see that chemistry has not been neglected
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Monopoly for chemists
Despite its venerable history, the board game Monopoly is as popular as ever and continues to inspire new variations on the classic theme.
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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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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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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.
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Patently interesting
As the world wide web continues to grow apace, the number of immensely useful sites also increases.
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The names of things
The great French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) understood the importance of names in science
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Understanding water
Funny stuff, water. The most abundant liquid on our planet, universal solvent, major constituent of all living matter; yet water is far from fully characterised
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The good, the bad and the ugly
Three events which together constitute the good, the bad and the ugly sides of a medical breakthrough