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We're all about the weirdly massive crystals today!
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Bonus biscuit fun fact: a friend of my dad's used to work for United Biscuits in Birmingham; when they were doing a run of water biscuits, someone had to go out and check the gasholders were high enough, because they need a certain pressure of gas to get the high temps needed.
It would be very difficult to separate hundreds and thousands (sugar strands) by colour - that's the thinking behind the image, by the way.
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A search for "*chem*" in the Epstein files reveals: Lots of references (eg Whitesides' CV); a pool with algae needing treatment; typos for 'them'; messages to someone who was late because they had 'chem tutoring' (yikes)
And the link to the PDF
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
![An email from Joscha Bach to Jeffrey Epstein 23 March 2019, highlighted text saying "I also liked Lee Cronin, who is an unusual mixture of apparent ego and [s]elf disdain, which he happily extends to
everyone else. His assertion [t]hat he doubts his own ideas more than those of all the others seems [a]Imost credible, and if true would make him devoid of a good baseline to [j]udge the quality of his own ideas, but he has some original ideas about [b]uilding chemical computers"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wknx7pshwftmi2gqwlz46rgr/bafkreibmopfpdtdrlotabohqmvspne4jmmxfaiuwo6vseblp2bmsbudp3m)
An email from Joscha Bach to Jeffrey Epstein 23 March 2019, highlighted text saying "I also liked Lee Cronin, who is an unusual mixture of apparent ego and [s]elf disdain, which he happily extends to everyone else. His assertion [t]hat he doubts his own ideas more than those of all the others seems [a]Imost credible, and if true would make him devoid of a good baseline to [j]udge the quality of his own ideas, but he has some original ideas about [b]uilding chemical computers"
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The 'Baghdad battery' was an unusual artefact discovered in Iraq in 1936. Now, a new reconstruction suggests it may have been more powerful than thought,
equivalent to an AA battery.
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The unionisation of C&EN will confuse all their readers...
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My query made it! Have a read.
It's been bothering me for years...
Some photos of the boss and his Nobel Medal, taken immediately after the ceremony. #NobelPrize #ozchem
This is a great dive into anthocyanins, tannins, and the oxidation chemistry of port in @chemistryworld.com 🍷
Richard Robson always had very small research groups and limited, sporadic funding. This has never been better illustrated than by the acknowledgement slides to the Nobel lectures of Robson, Kitagawa, and Yaghi (only 1 of 4 slides shown below). We punched above our weight! #ozchem #NobelPrize
I noticed exactly this walking from Kings Cross to Nature Towers last night: a queue of buses, taxis, cars and vans (cos roadworks) - but so quiet. Used to be deafening on York Way.
Don't have nightmares
I heartily agree. Worth it for the part-finished raised carvings alone – incomplete art, frozen in time.
But also: a four-odd thousand year old dress! In pretty good nick!
Rameses III's girdle!!
Glad to see AI has finally found its niche
www.aptaclub.co.uk/baby/baby-to...
Not quite focusing on the lgbt communities @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social is after, but I quite like the papers on 'liminal balance' and 'interior archipelago' in UK canal communities scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e...
PS top use of the word cut.
That's all folks!
Absolutely right, thanks for spotting those - all fixed now (you might need to clear your cache etc)
This is a very well-written piece on this year's MOF Nobel prize with a lot of personal accounts from the community
Ha ha, glad to hear it!
Hope the uber rather than bike doesn't mean you've had another injury...
Last week Susumu Kitagawa, Omar Yaghi and Richard Robson were awarded the #Nobelprize in #chemistry for their work developing metal-organic frameworks. Here I tell the story of how MOFs came to be - incl. an interview with Kitagawa himself! www.chemistryworld.com/features/how... @chemistryworld.com
Also featuring structures and graphs from the kind folks at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre - we know you lot love structures and graphs...
Julia's also got input from tons of other MOF experts, including @sbattenresearch.bsky.social who did his PhD with Robson in this area in the very early days.
Go and read it! Well done @robinson-julia.bsky.social , top work
(I think he was quite pleased to go into some detail about the chemistry, and talk about how copper(I) has a full d10 shell, so no d-d transition, etc, rather than how he felt when he found out and what he'll do with the money etc)