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- Trombone Shorty 3 hours ago Lamentations on Chemistry
I have a guitar and sometimes I pick at the strings before I retire for the evening. Regrettably, I can’t produce much that is recognizable. It’s just an elementary condition related to a lifelong neglect of this kind of activity. My brain plasticity has produced a tough layer of rythmic dissonance between my grey hair and [...]
- I?ll be blunt. It?s all about putting butts in seats. 2 days ago Lamentations on Chemistry
Ok. So I’m one of the founders of a theatre group more or less based in my home town. Truthfully, I’m the least experienced of this group. We’re a bunch of community theatre enthusiasts who have decided to start our own theatre group. Together we’ve had a few critical successes, but we wanted some autonomy. Most of [...]
- The State of Black Leadership 3 days ago Dr. Marc Lamont Hill
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- Seven Figures 7 days ago Lamentations on Chemistry
We sat in a small conference room across the table from one another and quietly listened to their presentation. The other side presented their wares in the form of a modest brochure and a verbal description of what they produce. The young Chinese-American emigre was VP of Operations and the white haired man next to [...]
- Nature Network: Nature.com's Budding Social Network for Scientists 1 week ago Element List
Science bloggers fleeing #Pepsigate or otherwise looking for a new network to call their own might look to one of the world's most prestigious science publications Nature.com to establish an online home. Hidden deep within Nature's website is a budding social network for scientists called Nature Network. It's been 'budding' for a few years actually, but the latest incarnation features on online collection of scientist profiles, forums, and private groups called 'workbenches,' that can be created by network members. The site is intended to be a website for professional researchers, unlike Facebook or MySpace, where scientists can gather together to share information and collaborate. Curiously, the project is so under-the-radar that there isn't a single link to the network from the Nature.com homepage. Nevertheless, Nature claims to have over 25,000 members in the network, including its stable of science bloggers. Some of the more active bloggers include GrrlScientist, formerly of ScienceBlogs, and Stephen Curry, a structural biologist at Imperial College London, who blogs at Reciprocal Space. Even I have a new personal science blog about geophysics and being a scientist at Propagating Waves.
- Andy Grove on Scaleup 1 week ago Lamentations on Chemistry
Andrew Grove is the former CEO of Intel who was responsible for its transition from memory chip producer to microprocessor producer. According to Wikipedia, Grove is responsible for an increase of 4500 % in Intel’s market capitalization. In his youth he and his family escaped from Budapest, Hungary during the Soviet invasion of 1956. Groves holds a PhD in [...]
- Russia being Russia 2 weeks ago Lamentations on Chemistry
It was reported that the Russian Parliament has approved a draft of a law to increase the powers of its FSB, or the remnant of its Soviet era KGB. The final version is somewhat weakened from its earlier form, which prescribed punishment for individuals who ignored such warnings from the F.S.B. In remarks posted on [...]
- Bastille Day 2 weeks ago Lamentations on Chemistry
Happy Bastille Day, if that is an actual greeting. A little bit of Edith Piaf is in order. And some wine and cheese.
- Viewpoints on American Business 2 weeks ago Lamentations on Chemistry
Over at the Robert Reich blog there is a recent commentary on Chinese currency policy. Reich makes some interesting comments on the Chinese approach to industrialization. But most fundamentally, China is oriented to production, not consumption. It wants to become the world?s preeminent producer nation. While keeping the yuan artificially low is costly to China [...]
