A list of small, useful things (links):I found this article on the health effects of chronic exposure to flavoring chemicals to be thought-provokingI learned a lot from this John Spevacek post on plastics recycling.Vittorio is definitely...
From Sam Stein of The Huffington Post, an interesting anecdote in a story about young scientists and their issues with the current federal funding climate:One particularly jarring example of this brain drain, recounted by two independent...
From C&EN's Michael Torrice, the latest from the #SheriSangji case:University of California, Los Angeles, chemistry professor Patrick Harran was arraigned today on four felony charges of violating the state labor code. A Los Angeles Coun...
C&EN was advertising this auction for an old Rochester, NY photochemical plant's equipment earlier this week in its banner ads. It's not like they were long for this world, what with digital photography being what it is. But it's still s...
Here's a hypothetical question that I get a lot, that I don't have an answer to:Hey, CJ: I'm a [insert here: junior undergraduate/new B.S. chemist/experienced Ph.D. chemist] and I'd like to get some of that sweet, sweet fracking cash and...
William Banholzer and a group of other high-level chemical corporation executives wrote a letter in this week's C&EN, where they really took academic chemical safety to task* ** -- and used an interesting metric to do it:The facts are un...
Good morning! Between May 7 and May 8, there were 21 new positions posted on the C&EN Jobs site. Of these, 4 (19%) are academically connected and 8 (38%) were from Kelly Scientific Resources.Toronto, Canada: This is a classic example, in...
From the blog of Noah Smith, a graduate student in economics at the University of Michigan and a reasonably prominent economics blogger:Basically, I think of PhDs as mostly falling into one of three categories: 1. Lifestyle PhDs. These i...
Good morning! Between May 2 and May 6, there were 268 new positions posted on the C&EN Jobs website. Of these, 7 (3%) are academically connected and 254 (95%) are from Kelly Scientific Resources.Uh, wow: It's always annoying when Kelly d...
Good morning! Between April 30 and May 6, there were 9 new academic positions posted on C&EN Jobs. The numbers:Total number of ads: 9- Postdocs: 1- Tenure-track faculty: 4- Temporary faculty: 1- Lecturer positions: 1- Staff positions: ...
