SellaTheChemist
@sellathechemist
🇺🇦🇺🇦 Born at 318 ppm CO2, UCL Prof, chemistry, climate change, energy waste, chemical weapons, #ClassicKit, bicycles, Lab_14, #UCLChemAirPoll. Timeblind […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
I suspect that this will prove to be a rare violation of @ianbetteridge ’s Law of headlines. From the FT.
Now this is what a Public Service Broadcaster should be doing! Worth the license fee right there. (Apologies for the offensive photograph)
Well fancy that. From FT: “The non-dom population remained broadly unchanged . . . suggesting many internationally mobile individuals chose to stay rather than make immediate decisions about relocating,” he added.
Message for the day – Commit a random act of maintenance! Listen to it, look at it, wipe it, clean it, lube it, brush it, tighten it, grease it, turn it, check it, test it, sweep it, mop it, paint it, tape it, sand it, tweak it, tune it, adjust it, wash it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
I had the enormous pleasure yesterday of giving a talk at the 13th annual Microscale conference, 13ISMC26. I was invited by the legendary Bob Worley (late of CLEAPSS) who has been developing an incredibly wide range of beautiful practicals that students can […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
This could be Count Binface's big chance. C'mon Clacton. Given the shocking waste of money of having to run a by-election the least you can do is to elect someone sensible. #Garbage
Hello London! Our annual #UCLChemAirPoll project lives again. We are sending first year undergraduates into Year 5 and 6 classes across London to talk about air pollution and measure NOx pollution. If you know of an interested school, get in touch […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Absolutely phenomenal talk this morning @ucl by Kathryn Paige Harden about the Genetics of "Vice", a fabulous coda to the great debate at the Council of Carthage of 418, where Pelagianism was cast out as heresy and Augustine became top dog. Is sin born or is […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
So if I understand correctly, Mandelson was a venal, corrupt backstabbing individual who should never have been appointed and whose advice was deeply flawed and corrupted by conflicts of interest. But now his every statement about Starmer is considered to be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Lovely exhibition inspired by The Second Law by the Japanese artist Reijiro Wada. The man does things to titanium that will make you marvel. At the Anglo Japanese Davies Foundation in Regent’s Park. #free #microstates #entropy #Boltzmann #titanium
Catching up with a pile of old newspapers, I find @MarcAbrahams staring out of the 23 April edition of Le Temps. It’s a great paper with smart journalists and little clickbait. IgNobels excepted, of course. 😜 A very good interview with trenchant comment on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Every so often there is a hilarious detail amid the never ending car-crash that is the Trump “administration”. “I was at an industry meeting this week, and I can tell you one of the biggest concerns was that we might see diesel prices [in the US] go to $10 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Exam question idea: “Using the quantities listed on the label calculate the pH of the buffer solution in this enema bottle.” Thoughts? #chemistry #teaching #applications #academic #enema
Come to think of it, the close-up in Fig 21 is even better. #experiments #safety #ethics #learning
Caption competition, anyone? For the historians “Roll over, Arrhenius”.
As I listen to @helenczerski talking about soil I am very struck by the builders’ rubble being used in UCL’s new planters in Gordon Street. There is “structure” there. Apparently the areno plans to add an organic component […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
I had the enormous pleasure tonight of being invited to a dinner where I not only heard @drsimevans talk about the challenges and choices facing the UK as it attempts to hit its net zero targets. But I also got to sit next to him. Poor man. But it was a rare […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Antonio Spadaro is a Vatican spokesman who knows how to hit Mr Trump where it hurts. From the FT which reports Trump’s latest rantling (a neologism that is the mix of rant and ramble that has become his hallmark)
A unnamed Iranian official quoted by the Tasnim news agency in Tehran sums up the state of play. America’s Suez.
Last night I spotted this little gas canister at the top of our stairs, refrigerant for some of our chillers or heat pumps on the roof. 21 kg of R-410a. Read the label: 44 tonnes of CO2e . One false move by an installer, or slow leaks and it’s released - the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Hmm. Not sure that this FT magazine headline has aged all that well.
Sunday lunchtime. Wind is strong. The sun is out. Carbon emissions are low. 25 g/kWh.
An old friend invited me to the dress rehearsal of Siegfried at Covent Garden this afternoon. It is a spectacular environmentally-grounded production, brilliantly sung (Siegfried!! Whoa! Andreas Schager transcends the Heldentenor) and stunningly staged and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
La chimie crée son objet. An absolutely outstanding talk by Jonathan Clayden about how organic chemistry has developed and evolved over the past 50 years at the Royal Society of Chemistry Historical Group today. Very thought-provoking analysis of how […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
I love the FT but this op-ed by Daniel Yergin is just blatant fossil industry propaganda. No reference to renewables, let alone mention of how oil price shocks lead to shifts - I’m thinking of Pakistan where the Russian oil price shock has led to an […] [Original post on mastodon.social]