Chemicals & Chemistry

Exploring the molecular world: new compounds, industrial chemistry, environmental impacts, material science discoveries, and the chemistry underlying everyday products and processes.

Here are two facts about plastic recycling. Chances are that you know one of them and that you don't know the other. I sure didn't before today. WHAT YOU PROBABLY KNOW
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In what is almost certainly a Sisyphean task I'm going to try to apply logic to homeopathy. And it's going to be a bit obnoxious. So, all you believers who already hate me better get out your voodoo dolls and pins ready.
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I lack the art gene. While other people can spend hours in a single room at the Met or MOMA, after five minutes I'm thinking about ways to light myself on fire. I just don't get art. 
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I remember the days when a restaurant's seating host would ask, "Smoking or non-smoking?" As if it mattered. The two sections were usually separated by a flimsy little divider that didn't even stretch to the ceiling.