July 2008

Martyn Poliakoff

Periodic Videos – educational AND fun! :-)

Thanks to Cali and her Geekbrief I came across a site called Periodic Videos, a site operated by the University of Nottingham. This site combines the periodic table we all know from chemistry class with… fun! In a Mythbusters-way they have made a video about each of the (currently) 118 elements in the periodic table […]

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the Factory of Death… aka Borregaard Sarpsborg

Oops, they did it again… 🙁 Borregaard, a large chemical manufacturer on the outskirts of Sarpsborg, Norway, and as such (one of) the largest employer in this area, has (probably) again managed to infect the area with Legionella, causing an outbreak of Legionellosis (also known as Legionnaires’ disease). Back in 2005 they already quite ‘successfully’

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Coming soon to a store near you: Stargate: Continuum

Yes, the time is almost there. Stargate: Continuum, the 2nd direct-to-DVD movie in the Stargate series is scheduled for release on July 29th, 2008. Through the grapevine I’ve heard some tidbits about this movie. First of all the plot (yes, blatantly copy/paste from the Wikipedia): While SG-1 attends a Tok’ra extraction ceremony for Ba’al, the

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