March 2, 2013
Women in Chemistry

Have I ever told you guys about the time that I got a very long and formal email from my friend D. Janes about Women in Chemistry and how their numbers are increasing and it’s important we keep up the trend?

And I had no idea why he was sending me such a long, formal, sincere email, which was completely out of character? And so I replied and said “I think women who do chemistry are pretty hot!” because that’s the kind of thing he might expect from me?

But then did I tell you how the President of the American Chemical Society was D. James and the email was actually from him?

And I sent him that reply I thought I was sending to my friend D. Janes? Who was writing me long formal emails for some reason? Did I ever tell you that?

8:46pm
(Notes: 19)
  
Filed under: science chemistry kant remember if I told you that 
March 1, 2013
brookhavenlab: Today marks the beginning of National Women’s History Month, which this year celebrates women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.  At Brookhaven Lab, we have many inspiring women engaged in innovative scientific research, including chemist Joanna Fowler, who received the 2009 National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest award for lifetime achievement in science. Fowler, pictured above with President Barack Obama, is the Director of the Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She is world renowned for her work in brain research and the study of diseases like addiction, which she investigates using an imaging technique called positron emission tomography (PET). You might remember her from her photo with that cool chemistry setup in our post on her contributions to PET imaging. In 1976, Fowler and her colleagues synthesized 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a radiotracer used in PET. Today, FDG is widely used in hospitals and research centers throughout the world to diagnose and study neurological and psychiatric diseases and to diagnose cancer. The photo with the cool chemistry setup is the best ever (btw, how a PET scan works using anti-matter was featured on Clear Science once)

brookhavenlab:

Today marks the beginning of National Women’s History Month, which this year celebrates women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. 

At Brookhaven Lab, we have many inspiring women engaged in innovative scientific research, including chemist Joanna Fowler, who received the 2009 National Medal of Science, the nation’s highest award for lifetime achievement in science.

Fowler, pictured above with President Barack Obama, is the Director of the Radiotracer Chemistry, Instrumentation and Biological Imaging Program at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She is world renowned for her work in brain research and the study of diseases like addiction, which she investigates using an imaging technique called positron emission tomography (PET).

You might remember her from her photo with that cool chemistry setup in our post on her contributions to PET imaging. In 1976, Fowler and her colleagues synthesized 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), a radiotracer used in PET. Today, FDG is widely used in hospitals and research centers throughout the world to diagnose and study neurological and psychiatric diseases and to diagnose cancer.

The photo with the cool chemistry setup is the best ever

(btw, how a PET scan works using anti-matter was featured on Clear Science once)

3:40pm
(Notes: 248)
  
Filed under: chemistry 
February 23, 2013
KcD drew the periodic table as characters for her senior thesis project at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. So of course I immediately clicked though to see what osmium looked like. The project website is here. (Kc you could have just asked what I look like okay?)

KcD drew the periodic table as characters for her senior thesis project at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. So of course I immediately clicked though to see what osmium looked like. The project website is here. (Kc you could have just asked what I look like okay?)

10:48am
(Notes: 12)
  
Filed under: science chemistry art 
March 9, 2012

linocut asked: Hello. Do you know of where I could find more pictures of complicated chemistry lab installations such as the one that was on your blog earlier? Are there any websites, I mean, for that kind of porn.

For times like this I keep a bookmark to Adams & Chittenden Scientific Glass. I’m an electrochemist, so I’m partial to that section.

1:57pm
(Notes: 9)
  
Filed under: science chemistry art glass 
March 9, 2012
mdt: Check out my new coffee making rig…. antisquared: Test Tubes & Beakers pornography

mdt:

Check out my new coffee making rig….

antisquared:

Test Tubes & Beakers

pornography

9:44am
(Notes: 230)
  
Filed under: chemistry glass 
March 4, 2012

femininescience:

The Periodic Table TABLE!

No discussion of osmium, but otherwise awesome.

6:21pm
(Notes: 71)
  
Filed under: science chemistry periodic table 
January 16, 2012
Issues of Journal Für Praktische Chemie from the 1830s in the library where I work. I look at them but I don’t touch them.

Issues of Journal Für Praktische Chemie from the 1830s in the library where I work. I look at them but I don’t touch them.

7:55am
(Notes: 39)
  
Filed under: chemistry 
January 15, 2012
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, the new president of the American Chemical Society, in his Science is Fun shirt.

Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, the new president of the American Chemical Society, in his Science is Fun shirt.

8:26am
(Notes: 9)
  
Filed under: science chemistry 
November 11, 2011

Why use gold as money?

I know the scientist in this. He got to burn stuff up on video in the name of education—this is what I aspire to. (Dear Slate, even though it is reactive, I think you have to call osmium a precious metal.)

3:17pm
(Notes: 5)
  
Filed under: science money economics chemistry 
July 8, 2011
From Chemical & Engineering News: Chemical Abstracts Service has recorded the 60 millionth substance in its CAS Registry. The compound, shown here, is 2-[1-[2-[(4-fluorophenyl)amino]-6H-1,3,4-thiadiazin-5-yl]ethyl]-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione. It is a potential antiviral substance discovered by a team of Chinese researchers from the Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

From Chemical & Engineering News:

Chemical Abstracts Service has recorded the 60 millionth substance in its CAS Registry. The compound, shown here, is 2-[1-[2-[(4-fluorophenyl)amino]-6H-1,3,4-thiadiazin-5-yl]ethyl]-1H-isoindole-1,3(2H)-dione. It is a potential antiviral substance discovered by a team of Chinese researchers from the Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences.

12:57pm
(Notes: 84)
  
Filed under: science chemistry molecules molly