Category Archives: chemistry

Totally Synthetic posted his blog stats today (Blogging… ) so I thought I’d post the ones that Jim Downing has set up for us. Apart from anything else I like the graphics. Days of week Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri … Continue reading →

This is a slightly provocative post – I would welcome comments. When the Nobel prizes were announced this year there was consternation in some of the chemical blogosphere that the chemistry prize had gone to a biologist (see links in … Continue reading →

In many detective novels the murderer makes a fatal mistake. Sometimes they don’t realise this, sometimes they try to cover their tracks. On the Internet you can’t cover your tracks – “The Moving Finger writes: and, having writ, Moves on: … Continue reading →

It’s three days since the mystery molecule was announced and although I’ve had local interest in Cambridge there’s only been one external post. You must know that in police work it is critical to make rapid progress in the first … Continue reading →

There has certainly been some speculation in our real-life community about the molecule! I am assuming that there are some other chemists out there who are speculating. Please give us some feedback – if you do maybe there will be … Continue reading →

As you will have seen from the comments, Peter Corbett knows what it is – and quite rightly isn’t saying. But no other response. What does an author do when all the readers are lurkers? Here’s the first strategy – … Continue reading →