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Darth Counterion

By drfreddy On December 12th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Spotted in March’s, 5th ed., p 320.

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Cocaine from sugar

By drfreddy On December 12th, 2011 · 4 Comments

If your local dealer insists on cutting your dope with sugar, you should be aware that there is a fix for it now.

Specifically, if the sugar is pure D-ribose and the desired dope is (—)-cocaine, which is the natural stuff indeed, you can convert the former into product with excellent stereoselectivity and an impressive […]

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Retracted

By drfreddy On December 9th, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The original post has been retracted for non-scientific reasons.

Retractions of scientific articles in general appears to be a hot topic. For a bizarre and completely unrelated story about the retraction of a retraction (!), see here.

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I got your damn boson

By drfreddy On December 6th, 2011 · 6 Comments

Important message to all particle physicists: You can stop looking.

I have found your particle, the God particle, a.k.a. the Higgs boson – the particle. It was hiding in plain sight all along. Everything is beginning to make sense now. We can soon enjoy a grand unified theory of everything.

The […]

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Nostalgia

By drfreddy On December 5th, 2011 · 5 Comments

Do you know what I miss most about studying? Chalk. It’s been almost a decade since we last met. There’s something eternally awesome about chemical structures drawn in white chalk on a black background.

I didn’t like it when everybody began switching over to whiteboards. In fact, I have come to hate these. I don’t […]

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Quiz time!

By drfreddy On December 4th, 2011 · 10 Comments

The time is ripe for a short chemistry quiz. In fact, a very short one – it’s only one question long. We used to traumatize undergraduates with this one towards the end of the first organic chemistry lab course. I can’t remember if a student ever got it right, and I’m certainly not sure whether […]

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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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