Brian Malpass
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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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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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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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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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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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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.