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  • Preventing misuse of chemistry cloud labs by bad actors
    Cloud labs promise to significantly accelerate synthesis and testing by lowering cost and technology barriers - for both good and bad actors. Potential s...
    1 week ago from The Curious Wavefunction
  • RFK Jr. is not a serious person. Don't take him seriously.
    Well, president-elect Trump has announced that he will nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), putting him...
    1 month ago from Genomics, Medicine, and Pseudoscience
  • Geometric model of particles: a didactical approach
    About ten years ago *Giovanni Guido* proposed me a new model to describe particles. Under certain aspects it remembers to me a string model: simplifying a...
    3 months ago from Doc Madhattan
  • Friday Fabulous Flower - Bottle brush buckeye
    Not too many plants blossom in the middle of summer. But the bottle brush buckeye is reliable shade tolerating plant. Not only that but once establish...
    1 year ago from The Phytophactor
  • The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site
    I'm moving house. Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...
    2 years ago from Catalogue of Organisms
  • The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site
    I'm moving house. Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...
    2 years ago from Variety of Life
  • The political brainwashing by the rich
    How to reach the people who think Obama is the anti-christ, the racists who think Democrats are communists, and those who believe the global climate crisis...
    4 years ago from Pleiotropy
  • What I read 2019
    A The Shining by Stephen King. Excellent book! Saw the great movie of the same name. They're different, I'll leave it at that. C- Sherlock Holme...
    4 years ago from Angry by Choice
  • Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs's Mineralogical Legacy
    *Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs, lithography by Joseph Kriehuber (1832).* *Talc – Gypsum – Calcite – Fluorite – Apatite – Feldspar – Quartz – Topaz – Cor...
    4 years ago from History of Geology
  • How do we mourn human civilization?
    2019 was a lot of things. But for what I want to say here, 2019 was the year that I realized we might not save ourselves. Just on its face, 2019 was a ter...
    5 years ago from PLEKTIX
  • Histological Evidence of Trauma in Dicynodont Tusks
    *Whitney, M. R., Ting Tse, Y., and C. A. Sidor. 2019. Histological evidence of trauma in tusks of southern African dicynodonts. Palaeontologia Africana 5...
    6 years ago from Chinleana
  • Why doesn't all the GTA get taken up?
    I've been modelling the production and uptake of GTA particles in a culture, hoping to understand the cause of the surprising GTA-accumulation curve I desc...
    6 years ago from RRResearch
  • Hunting up the ghosts of elements
    *This post originally appeared at the UNESCO International Year of Light's blog, in October 2015. The site is no longer available.* Interior of an antique...
    6 years ago from The Culture of Chemistry
  • December 2015 Desktop Calendar
    Do you know this moss? After our run-in at the herbarium last week we are besties. Stay tuned for a post later in the week about my mossy adventures with t...
    9 years ago from Moss Plants and More
  • Unrealistic Scientific Optimism
    Not enough published studies replicate. There are a number of reasons for this, but one of the most difficult to address is statistical power. *Why is lo...
    9 years ago from Games with Words
  • Update: Tree of Eukaryotes (parasitology edition)
    There arose a need for a new tree for a parasitology meeting, so after almost five years, I finally updated the tree of eukaryotes. There are still things ...
    9 years ago from Skeptic Wonder
  • Re-Blog: June Was 6th Warmest Globally
    In the UK, we've been rather lucky *touch wood* and had a rather lovely summer thus far. But, it seems that there's a darker side to this lovely weather......
    10 years ago from The View from a Microbiologist
  • Goodbye FoS, thanks for all the laughs
    Moving house again… Well almost, moving addresses anyway. It wasn’t that long ago I moved from Disease of the Week to here at Disease Prone to take advanta...
    13 years ago from Disease Prone
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