All Last retort articles – Page 9
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Sulfur or sulphur?
Sulfur or sulphur? The controversy over the spelling of element number 16 rumbles on
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Oinking and squawking
There's been lot of oinking and squawking over recent scares about swine flu and bird flu
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A dramatic experiment
I once conducted a dramatic experiment for a BBC TV programme on chemistry
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Chemistry is hard
They say bright students today don't read chemistry at university because it is seen as a 'hard' subject. And there are fears over job prospects
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'Hello, my URL is...'
At a party a few years back, instead of nametags the guests wore stickers that said 'hello, my URL is...
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The level of disorder
Dramatised by Alan Lightman, the second law of thermodynamics incorporates the theory of entropy
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The two cultures
This year marks the 50th anniversary of C P Snow's famous Rede Lecture entitled 'The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution'
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Heavy drinking
Alcohol makes us lose balance, but heavy water has the opposite effect. Could a 'heavy' gin and tonic get us drunk but keep us upright?
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Darwin's chemistry
This year marks the bicentenary of Charles Darwin's birth and the sesquicentenary of his On the Origin of Species, one of the most important and influential books ever published.