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by jamesash 12y ago
Paul Bracher of ChemBark gave this field the highest odds of winning, at 7-1. Interestingly a commenter told him he neglected to put in Hell, about 3 hours before the announcement was made. http://blog.chembark.com/2014&#x2F
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by jamesash 12y ago
Funny, but necessary. The Zaentz company is notoriously litigious. From Zaentz' Wikipedia article: "In 2011, Zaentz's company began several legal actions against small businesses in the UK to enforce their "Hobbit"
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by jamesash 12y ago
Ditto for Cairo, worst traffic I've ever experienced. Noticed an unusually high number of people walking with limps, too.
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by jamesash 12y ago
Point taken on lower efficiency of US health care spending. http://www.vox.com/2014/9/2/6089693/health-care-facts-whats-... Worth noting, however, that Europe, Canada, and the ROW get to freeload on inno
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by jamesash 12y ago
>What does national defense cost have to do with it? Uh, more headroom for entitlement programs in general? I see France at 10%, not 12%, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_de_l'État_français but even at the l
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by jamesash 12y ago
>Somehow Europe, Canada, Japan, etc, all make health care work but we can't. The countries you mentioned largely have outsourced their national defence concerns to the United States, allowing them to have defence budgets of <10%
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by jamesash 12y ago
Listening to the audiobook of The Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar is rich in detail and really grabs you by the throat. The classically trained narrator is superb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snft290-FRc&list=PLpO7W_Vnt
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by jamesash 12y ago
Pretty breathless PR piece from Scripps that actually doesn't go into any notable detail on the chemical reaction, hits all the buzzwords (green, click, yada yada) and manages to spell sulfur "sulfer" and hydrolyze "hydr
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by jamesash 12y ago
Yes, when I read the title I was expecting the article to talk about Alexander Shulgin.
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by jamesash 12y ago
A long but very shallow article. - interviewed authors of paper that used the phrase, "silent pandemic" when claiming widespread behavioural and cognitive problems as a result of 12 compounds. Evidence presented in the article it
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A Case of Uncreative Destruction(online.wsj.com)
1 points by jamesash 12y ago|0 comments
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by jamesash 13y ago
I made lemonade from the lemons: came out of an MIT postdoc with a Science paper, the academic track didn't pan out (2 application cycles) but I saw that there was a need for a great online organic chemistry resource, so I started buil
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by jamesash 13y ago
Refreshing to read a NYT article that doesn't go out of its way to find the cloud in the silver lining.
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by jamesash 13y ago
Reading through this article reminds me of why I'm so critical of science journalism: it's in the attention business, not the science business, and directing undue scepticism about so-called "breakthroughs" would kill a
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by jamesash 13y ago
It is similar in that both require applying concepts to solve very specialized situations. This neurologist agrees with McCarty and can tell you why: http://bit.ly/16WUkba
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by jamesash 16y ago
The gap between grade inflation at colleges and universities could represent a gap in the energy, motivation and determination of students to complain about their grades. There's asymmetry between the (nearly limitless) time and energy stud
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by jamesash 16y ago
I agree with you. As long as you're passionate about a subject, you can start your own micro-school. I couldn't get a job as an organic chemistry professor even with an MIT pedigree and a long list of papers, including one in Science. So I
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by jamesash 16y ago
Agree. As far as the tenure debate, becoming a candidate for being science professor at a top university requires INCREDIBLE single-minded focus, from college through Ph.D. through postdoc. And for that, you get a chance at an academic jo