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Publish AND Perish

By drfreddy On November 30th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Ron Fouchier, a mad scientist from The Netherlands, has created a new super-virus, a genetically modified H5N1 influenza strain, with the predicted potential to, if let out in the wild, kill about half of all humans on Earth.

Researchers and experts on bioterrorism now debate whether publishing the ‘recipe’ in the […]

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Self-portrait

By drfreddy On November 25th, 2011 · 2 Comments

This is how I see myself. I can’t decide whether to drop the moustache or not. Other than that, I think I’m in decent shape. If only I could remember the combination to the briefcase.

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Self-distance has a name

By drfreddy On November 21st, 2011 · 6 Comments

Has TOC ROFL possibly escaped anyone’s attention? Whoever said the primary literature lacked humor was outright wrong. I eat, sleep and shit TOC ROFL. That was perhaps a bit dramatic. Seriously though, TOC ROFL is one of the first pages I open in the morning.

Since this particular abstract has not […]

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Tear down this wall

By drfreddy On November 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment

We welcome change and openness,
for we believe that freedom and research go together,
that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of science.

There is one sign the Publishing Groups can make that would be unmistakable,
that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and science.

Business Magnate Rupert […]

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Poisons and poverty

By drfreddy On November 19th, 2011 · 1 Comment

“Chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost maniacal impulse to seek their pleasures amongst smoke and vapour, soot and flames, poisons and poverty, yet amongst all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that I would rather die than change places with the King of Persia.”

Johann Joachim […]

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ChemFeeds cuts the crap out of titles

By drfreddy On November 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments

As I have said many times before, I totally recommend ChemFeeds for getting a quick and comprehensible overview of the most recent Chemistry literature. I can’t even begin to imagine how much work is needed behind the scenes to make the whole thing work. Two thumbs up!

The page does however suffer […]

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Is IQ inversely proportional to happiness? Can it be this simple?

By drfreddy On November 16th, 2011 · 16 Comments

Do you think it is like this? A linear correlation between intelligence and happiness.

Or is it like this? A local minimum for semi-bright individuals?

Would love to hear your theories on the matter. Help me out here. I can’t make up my mind over the two scenarios. For Linus Pauling’s and Bertrand […]

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Pyridine!

By drfreddy On November 15th, 2011 · 3 Comments

I remember at one point having a (review?) paper called “Pyridine!” in my collection. Love that title. I can’t remember who wrote it, what year it was from or what it contained. Now I can’t find it again, because SciFinder and Google Scholar seem to ignore the exclamation mark in text based searches. If you […]

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The stinkiest name reaction

By drfreddy On November 13th, 2011 · 5 Comments

I would be most surprised if anyone of you had heard of the Willgerodt-Kindler reaction before. It stinks, literally and figuratively. Don’t get me wrong, the reaction works really well, but that is also its actual problem. The desired products are extremely undesired, if you know what I am saying. I have […]

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Total synthesis of bromobenzene

By drfreddy On November 10th, 2011 · 9 Comments

An international team of scientists herein wish to report on a seminal EAS functionalization approach to unearth a mono-substituted benzene (1), tentatively named bromobenzene.

Scheme 1. Synthesis of bromobenzene

It is noteworthy that the depicted synthesis is strictly linear. According to preliminary results, the addition of a catalytic amount of Lewis acid is […]

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