Tenderbutton – A chemist's blog

I was pointed today to a really impressive blog:
http://blog.tenderbutton.com
The author describes himself as:
My name is Dylan Stiles and I work in the Trost lab at sunny Stanford University. I’m engaged in the total synthesis of two natural products: spirotryprostatin B and …
… and I guess he is a postgraduate research student.  The blog is technically first class, both in its chemistry and its presentation.
I was particularly impressed by the discussion on journal overpricing.
http://blog.tenderbutton.com/?p=153
Although there are a small number of facetious replies there is a good critical mass of discussion, and I guess most of those contributing are also young researchers. One of them discusses Donald Knuth and the Journal Of Algorithms in some depth so I suspect there is a strong Stanford connection.
Dylan enthuses about Wikipedia and has contributed to the chemistry there..
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