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		<title>Beware of the Butane</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chemistry in the world]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of my colleague, I came across this article on Yahoo about the perils of eating chicken nuggets. Broadly speaking, the article speaks good sense. Chicken nuggets are quite vile concoctions (and showing your kids a video of how they are made is pretty good at stopping them wanting to eat them, or at least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=694&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Close Encounter With Toxicodendron radicans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chemistry in the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poison ivy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[steroid drug]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urushiol]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My week so far has been rather occupied by the fall-out of a close encounter my wife had with Toxicodendron radicans, also known as poison ivy. My wife is very sensitive to this plant. Despite great care, wearing gloves and long shirt, with a thorough wash afterwards, even the tiniest contact causes the familiar rash. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=682&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sad News From Scynexis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sad and bad news for the RTP scientific community this week, as Scynexis laid off 12 people this week. Now in the grand scheme of things maybe 12 people is not so many but here it was quite a hit. Scynexis along with GSK are the main employers of organic chemists in the Triangle. Although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=677&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid Things to do with Liquid Nitrogen</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I like explosions. I think a lot of chemists get into chemistry because of the excitement of sodium in water or the Thermite reaction. But it is all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Or a hand. Paul at ChemBark posted a video of someone messing with liquid nitrogen. Go watch it if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=673&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Wouldn&#8217;t Do That New Reaction Today If I Were You</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[random thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One for Friday the 13th. A subject that comes up from time to time is that of scientists with superstitions. Is it surprising that supposedly rational scientific people would subject themselves to irrational superstitions? Clearly they do: ChemJobber had a post on this very thing (with some great comments) and before that Nature Chemistry covered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=671&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Important Message About Sharpies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[tales of the lab]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague walks into the lab and says, very casually, &#8220;Your sharpies are upside down.&#8221; The Sharpie is very common in the laboratory for the obvious reason that we use it to label things (on the glass directly mostly) and then it can be removed with a little acetone once we are done. So imagine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=668&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medicine TEDTalk Takedown on Chemistry Blog</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/medicine-tedtalk-takedown-on-chemistry-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thomas pogge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read the blog post by Azamanam about a proposed way to reinvent the pharmaceutical industry, given as a TEDTalk by Thomas Pogge, with increasing incredulity. If you have not, go read Azamanam&#8217;s piece. The fellow appears to have absolutely no idea how the real pharmaceutical companies work. Importantly, he doesn&#8217;t seem to realize what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=664&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Felony Charges for UCLA and Professor Harran</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/felony-charges-for-ucla-and-professor-harran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few will forget the tragic circumstances around the death of young chemist Sheri Sangji, who died from injuries sustained while using t-butyl lithium in the laboratory of Professor Patrick Harran at UCLA. The amazing report of Jyllian Kemsley in C&#38;E News is here. I wrote about it back then too. This story took another turn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=658&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas!</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/merry-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[random thoughts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging will be a little light over the holiday season, but I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you all for reading and to wish you a relaxed and happy Christmas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=650&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Isco gold columns</title>
		<link>http://chemicalspace.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/isco-gold-columns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Perrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[tales of the lab]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Isco is the work horse of our lab. So it was not unusual to find me running a purification on it the other day, though perhaps the size of the column (a 330 gram) was larger than usual. Now normally, it is such that you set it up and then can more or less [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chemicalspace.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7706204&amp;post=630&amp;subd=chemicalspace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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