Articles from April 2012



Science Journals – Money for Old Rope

Posted by Dr Tel on April 28, 2012

An eminent professor once asked me, ‘Dr Tel, why do you publish in such rubbish journals?’ Actually he didn’t say ‘rubbish’, but because he is an eminent professor I will moderate his language, lest we all blush. I was rather stumped. Up until that time it hadn’t occurred to me

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Health and Safety in the Laboratory

Posted by Dr Tel on April 15, 2012

  I would like to say, straight off, that I am very, very careful about Health and Safety in the laboratory. There is probably no greater evangelist for proper laboratory practise than yours truly, an attitude I had adopted long before what we now call the ‘Ruthenium Tetroxide Incident’.

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