It just came to my attention that Leslie Orgel is dead. He died on October 27th 2007 as an 80 year old scientist who has certainly left a great impression, was recognized as a great mind and a generous human being. Leslie Orgel was also known for his “second ruleâ€, which states that “evolution is cleverer […]
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In memoriam: Leslie Orgel
Published by March 25th, 2008 in ancient technology and biopolymers. 0 CommentsCreating 3D sugar structures
Published by January 18th, 2008 in biopolymers, hipness, link and state of the art. 0 Commentskudos to Amanda: the people at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have come up with something pretty sweet—a 3-D sugar printer. Really cool. Makes me want to go out and build one myself:
Alles [auf] Zucker!
Published by November 24th, 2007 in biopolymers, polymer classes, preparative, science link and technologies. 0 CommentsThe title off a german 2004 comedy about a disgrunteld jewish journalist actually lines out german chemist Peter Seebergers work on glycane chemistry at ETH Zürich. While the movie is bristling with witty fast-paced dialogue, Seeberger took a lesson from Merrifield and managed to build the worlds first automated polyglycane synthesizer bringing a faster pace […]
Fluorescent Carbon Nanoparticles Derived from Candle Soot
Published by October 5th, 2007 in carbon nano tube, future technology and literature. 0 CommentsY’all know: one of these days it had to happen. When we created this blog, we almost called it something like “soot world”, indicating that what many chemists consider to be dirt, goo and soot in effect are interesting molecules, polymers or oligomers. Whatever. Cool stuff you can put in an nmr tube (anyone remember […]
