Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything […]
This is Lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine and last week it was awesome to me. The reaction I have been trying to optimise for about 1 year now stubbornly refused to be optimised. Every variation of conditions and substrate I tried had next to no effect upon the outcome of the reaction. Until last week, until LiTMP.
Steric bulk […]
BBC news
This is hilarious even by the standards of UK politics. Jacqui Smith’s private life deserves all the scrutiny it gets given her mighty Crusade Against Individual Privacy.
He who sees the infinite in all things, sees God. He who sees the Ratio only sees himself only.
William Blake
Earth Hour in Pheonix
In the big scheme of things, Earth Hour was a drop in the bucket. Power companies APS and SRP saw a reduction in power equal to the elimination of about 9,000 homes for that hour, says APS spokesman Dan Wool.
Things like this bug me. Not a lot, but these gestures are so […]
What would you do
If you saw spaceships
Over Glasgow?
Would you fear them?
-Mogwai