all things weird and wonderful

ooops, I have a lot of catching up to do in my book-keeping of German pieces, so you'll find a vast range of weird and wonderful topics below. I'll just start with the latest and see how far I get ...

Blickpunkt Biowissenschaften: Pharmazeutika als Umweltproblem
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 10, October 2024, Pages 65-66
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related content in English: Drugging the biosphere

Ausgeforscht: Stadtluft macht hemmungslos
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 9, September 2024, Page 112
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a sketch about flies mating across species barriers when exposed to polluted air

Blickpunkt Biowissenschaften: Neue Wege zu künstlichen Zellen
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 7-8, July-August 2024, Pages 68-69
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a feature about new routes towards artificial cells

Blickpunkt Biowissenschaften: Von Muscheln lernen
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 5, May 2024, Pages 66-67
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related content in English: Learning from bivalves

Ausgeforscht: Der Mensch als Kaffee-Biosensor
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 5, May 2024, Pages
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a sketch about a novel electronic coffee-testing device which still requires a human as part of the setup

Blickpunkt Biowissenschaften: Enzyme gegen die Plastikflut
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 3, March 2024, Pages 74-75
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related content in English: Can we end plastic pollution?

Ausgeforscht: Altern abgeschafft?
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 3, March 2024, Page 98
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a sketch about the latest immortality treatments - slightly more serious treatment in English: Forever young

Ausgeforscht: Und ewig tropft der Stein
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 2, February 2024, Page 114
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a sketch about the medical uses of stalactite water (aka moon milk)

Blickpunkt Biowissenschaften: Vielfätige Gifte
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 70-71
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related content in English: The venom menace

Ausgeforscht: Planet der Dinosaurier
Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 72, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages
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a sketch about the finding that life on Earth was more readily detectable for extraterrestrial scientists in the time of the dinosaurs than it is today. So if we proceed to discover lots of exoplanets inhabited by dinosaurs we know why.

Not directly linked to my articles, but as I have been a member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) for 38 years now and my dad was awarded the golden pin badge for 50 years membership, I kind of feel we've been part of its 75 year history, commemorated with this cover in June this year. I was first contacted about writing regularly for the magazine in the summer of 1999, so that's a silver jubilee too.

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pieces for 2023 yet to be completed ...

Nachrichten aus der Chemie Volume 71, Issue 2, May 2023, Pages
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