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I don’t watch much TV, but of course since it’s December, there are lots of jewelry commercials. I just saw the “A Diamond Is Forever” bit by DeBeers.

As a chemist, this has always bugged me. A diamond is not forever–the most stable form of carbon is graphite. So much for truth in advertising. A diamond [...]

Update 2005-01-01: There is a new release, version 0.2.

This WordPress plugin allows posting images and links to your Gallery albums and photos. In this sense, it is much like the MTGalleryLink plugin for MovableType.

To insert a thumbnail like this:

You use the following tags in your post: <wpgallery>bigsur04/BigSur7</wpgallery>

You can also use a direct PHP function call: <?php echo [...]

I ran across this “perspectives” piece: CSPO - Consortium For Science, Policy & Outcomes - Perspectives by Daniel Greenberg, currently at the Brookings Institute.

Rather, despite their persistent grousing, mainly in private, about the follies of scientifically illiterate politicians, scientists have no stomach for electoral political combat. Taking the lobbying route, and shunning the ballot box, [...]

Nanotechnology.

Arguably, it’s my current research field–my Ph.D. in chemistry at Northwestern was on electronic materials in general, but one of my advisors and a good chunk of that research group focused on molecular and nanoscale electronic devices. And I’ve read plenty of science fiction, plenty of Eric Drexler’s vision of nanotechnological molecular manufacturing, and of [...]