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Heated Research On The Origin Of Life In Warm Waters And Ernesto Di Mauro

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New Evidence That People Make Aspirin's Active Principle

Dec 27 2008 | comment(s)

People can make their own salicylic acid (SA), the principal metabolite of aspirin. SA that gives aspirin its famous action on pain, fever, and inflammation is now looking like a star in its own "class" of bioregulators.

Prince of Orange Studies Climate Change

Dec 26 2008 | comment(s)

Tangerine skies.. Tangerine blossoms, so I thought while wearing my tangerine trench coat in the Netherlands. I had no idea how much the Dutch would be attracted to me ... for my coat. I learned soon that they favor 'that color' because of the Orange Family. My face lit up with "but you don't even have orange groves here."

The Prince of Orange, Prins van Oranje in Dutch, is scheduled to become the king of Holland on 30 April 2009. He is supposed to be an expert in Climate Change. His biography brings up Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand's interest in international water management issues. That is perhaps a comfort to royalists everywhere but just a Prince Scientist to others.

Taste of Green Wine in a Box

Dec 22 2008 | comment(s)

Beware: green chemistry is soon to serve you green wines. And in boxes, too.

Once I read in Chemical and Engineering News a list of the chemicals in either red or white wines. I remember thinking "generic wines" to start with: Let's see the difference in the young and the old wines!

Top Ten Science Picks

Dec 20 2008 | comment(s)

Chose my chemistry picks
Knew it was coming.
Let's see Science's tricks
Got the list humming?

1. Cellular reprogramming
2. Exoplanets
3. Cancer genes
4. High temperature superconducting materials
5. Proteins' work
6. Excess renewable energy storage
7. Embryo video
8. Good fat to fight
9. World weight calculation
10. Genome sequencing

ScientificBlogging.com has been plugging
Quite well, on plotting
Except one, World's Weight*
Who knew "that" quantum(ing)!

Utopia of Oz, Silver, and CNN

Dec 16 2008 | comment(s)

L. Frank Baum wrote "The Wizard of Oz" in 1900. As a centennial-celebration of this hugely popular American story, I went back to a reread. There are many themes to be explored in the land of Oz created by Baum. Starting with "Oz," you knew it stood for ounce, ounces of silver, contrary to others saying the tabs of O to Z in file folders, right?

The author was into supporting the silver platform in contemporary US politics. In 1960, S. J. Sackett wrote "Utopia of Oz", The Georgian Review, Vol XIV, pp 275-290. Here, staying with politics, are the political elements that I culled from this article. My assessment of these fifteen positions in 2008 is given as grades in progress since 1900.

Chemistry, Drugs, and Rock-and-Roll: 2008 has 2 winners

Dec 15 2008 | comment(s)

Chemistry is wonderful. Chemistry now has to play more than ever an interdisciplinary role for new visions. Here are two wonderful studies that I caught singing to me in 2008. Both contain elegant science that promises sheer greatness. Each rocks in a different manner by means of chemistry.

The first one is in polymer chemistry, a dear interest of mine, for molecules that can rotate and slide. The second, an Inventors Hall of Fame winner, solves living-cell networks to cure the sick.