Hot Science from the 1880s
Here’s a fun tip. If you get bored reading , try doing the exact opposite. What was seen as cutting-edge research in the earliest issues of the Journal of the American Chemical Society makes for...
View ArticleThis Day in 1946
In honor of a birthday today, I looked up some issues of scientific journals from this day in 1946. I noticed that publications in that year illustrate the theme that a silver lining can sometimes be...
View ArticleWomen. Science. 1880.
Whew! A gem of an article was published in Science magazine… in October 1880 that is. I stand by my previous assertion – reading some of the least current scientific papers available provides an...
View ArticleLow Hanging Fruit
This past week, I met with a visiting professor who commented that chemistry research is harder and more complex than it used to be. Most of the “low-hanging fruit” has already been picked, and the...
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