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Twenty years ago today, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I lay on a bed in a cramped backpackers’ hostel in the Katherine Gorge National Park (now Nitmiluk), in Australia’s Northern Territory, watching news of the fall of the Berlin Wall (now rubble)....
In the current issue of The Alchemist we learn how to stick methane molecules to metals without breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds and how to make impossible carbene catalysts without the usual prerequisite of an attendant metal centre.
Another seeming...
Laura Bonetta wrote an excellent article for the science journal Cell recently in which she quoted various science types who use Twitter on the subject of whether or not scientists should be tweeting. It’s a topic I’ve discussed more generally...
UPDATE – NOV 5: Still working through the almost 650 members of the list, but now up to the P’s.
Pressure was on from lots of science tweeps for to categorise my scientwist list…so I’ve made a start.
The spillover (lots of tweeps in the T to Z group...
