Archive for the ‘ACS’ Category
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
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I will be attending the ACS conference in Boston this fall. I will be there exploring the city on Saturday night and I'll be leaving Wednesday afternoon (August 18th through 22nd). If anyone would like to meet up let me know. The meet-ups always fare very well. I'll of course ...
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
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I've discussed yahoo pipes previously,1,2 and now I've created a new pipe far more powerful than the previous two. I added a pipe that will allow you to search all of the ACS's, Nature's, APS's, Science's, RSC's rss feeds simultaneously and it also searches in all of the Springer chemical ...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
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There should be a way to have ACS notify you when a paper is published about a topic you are interested in. For instance, if you were an aromatic freak, there should be a way to have ACS tell you when a paper regarding aromaticity comes out. Now there is! ...
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Thursday, January 25th, 2007
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Chemical and Engineering News' website has many little hidden secrets unbeknown to mere mortals. One of the coolest is the ability to read C&EN articles before they are circulated on their main webpage. The current issue of C&EN is volume 85 issue 4 and can be accessed by viewing ...
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
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C&EN is looking for a science intern to work at home and help write News and feature stories for the Science/Technology/Education division of the paper. The advertisement can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/internship.html, a summary of the advertisement is below.
Internship Opportunity
Chemical and Engineering News, the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical ...
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Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
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Bethany Halford needs your thoughts on an opinion piece for C&EN regarding chemistry blogs. So if you are reading this, by definition you are at least a chemical blog reader and maybe a chemical blogger too and eligible to contribute your thoughts to her article.
Bethany makes her request as the ...
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Thursday, September 14th, 2006
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At the ACS meeting I found the greatest individual of all time. I call him the red-ticket man. He handed out red raffle tickets that were worth a free beer at the poster session. He was shorter than I and had grey-white hair with a small white mustache. He was ...
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
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Unfortunately, I forgot my sci-mix drink tickets at home on Monday, but I found several alternative ways to get free alcohol.
1) Go to your school's alumni meeting. When I walked into Berkeley's free alumni meeting wearing jeans, my beat-up shoes and my several weeks of unshaven manly hair growth--I thought ...
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Monday, May 29th, 2006
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So who else in the informal chemical education community is going to ACS SF this fall? Since, I'm right next door in Berkeley, I'll try to organize a little get together with some people from the staff and regular visitors to the website. It'll involved drinking, maybe food, although food ...
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Mitch at ACS-Boston 2007
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