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Infatuated With Chemistry

3 Apr 2024

The fact that virtually everything in our life, be it digesting our food, using medications to treat disease, producing the clothes we wear, and even the grinding of our mental gears can be...

Can Vitamin C cure the common cold? Hold on

22 Mar 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

It鈥檚 A Chemical World!

6 Mar 2024

It鈥檚 a chemical world out there! We are awash in some fifty million known chemicals, the majority of which are created by nature, a minority by chemists. They鈥檙e not good or bad, not safe or...

Don鈥檛 Throw the Baby Out With the Hydrogenated Bathwater

23 Feb 2024

This article was first published in the Montreal Gazette. 鈥淐ongratulations! You have in your hands one of the best available tools to increase your health and vitality.鈥

Faraday, Dickens and Lighthouses

22 Dec 2023

I have a longstanding fascination with Victorian arts and sciences. It was the era when Darwin published the 鈥淥rigin of the Species,鈥 Perkin synthesized dyes, Lister introduced antiseptic surgery,...

A Call To Teach Chemistry

10 Nov 2023

Is there something in your past to put you on a path to become an educator? When I was a teenager I did one of those guidance counsellor tests which suggested I should become one. I laughed. But a...

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry - No Small Matter

6 Oct 2023

The word 鈥渜uantum鈥 derives from the Latin word for 鈥渁mount,鈥 so that if something is 鈥渜uantifiable,鈥 it means that it can be measured. Although I think I have a reasonably good grasp of chemistry,...

The First Canadian Nobel Prize

29 Sep 2023

As we approach the week during which the 2023 Nobel Prizes will be announced (October 2-9, 2023), it is perhaps timely to consider the events that surrounded the first Nobel Prize awarded to a...

The First Consumer Activist

26 Jul 2023

So you are worried about aspartame or a little Red #3 in your food? You know what you would have to worry about back in the early years of the 19th聽century? A little strychnine in the beer.聽聽A...

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