Chemicals & Chemistry

There's ozone, and then there's ozone. Is ozone good for us? Yes. Is ozone bad for us? Yes.

     

Every so often, the media likes to warn us that we're all dying from air pollution.

The origin of life is a profound mystery.

The Associated Press reports that blackmailers have

 During the Vietnam War the lush tropical vegetation of the region provided both a cover for the North Vietnamese and a natural obstacle for our soldiers.  In response, the United States military sprayed approximately 19 million gal

Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post recently used

Gatorade needs a better marketing team.

I've written recently about nitrogen-infused coffee (and also beer) and why the chemistry of adding nitrogen makes sense.

Junk epidemiological studies are rather like pigeons in New York—an omnipresent nuisance that you learn to live with and ignore and hope they don't make too much of a mess. It's too bad that CNN didn't have the judgment to do this.