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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Mental Health Dialogue: 2017 Edition (part 2)

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Note: this post is a response in a dialogue between Chemjobber and I on grad school and its effects on mental health. Yesterday's post c...
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Friday, January 9, 2015

Revisiting grad school and mental health with Chemjobber

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Note to readers: this post is a response in a dialogue between Chemjobber and I on grad school and its effects on mental health. Yesterday...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Minty fresh terpenoids

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With the holidays concluding (and stocks of candy canes dwindling) it's natural to ask: what's the difference between spearmint, pe...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Sixteen Columns

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Vittorio over at Labsolutely has a very clever and amusing post up re-imagining the X-Men as chemists . So what other media genres share c...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

Why Steve Strauss should stop hiring English majors and hire some scientists instead

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Recently, a few people I know shared this column  on Facebook. Written by Steve Strauss, a lawyer/author and self-described "small busi...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Stop using that word: Accordance

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Consider "accordance". It's a sleek, shiny word. But it's terribly misused in scientific manuscripts. To pick on just on...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Carbenes: turns out, nature has them, too

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Enzymes are like nature's little gloveboxes . It's really quite interesting what kind of chemistries are possible in aqueous, biolog...
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