Reinventing the chemical industry

Licensing in the chemical industry

The War and the Chemical Industry.

The only truie basis on whiPh the independence of ouir country can rest is agriculture and manufactures. To the promotion of these nothing tends in a higher degree than chemistry. It is this scienee which teaches ian lhow to correct the bad qualities of the land he cultivates bv a proper application of the variouis species of manure, and it is by means of a knowledge of this science that lhe is...

Reinventing the leaf.

L IKE A FIRE-AND-BRIMSTONE PREACHER, NATHAN S. Lewis has been giving a lecture on the energy crisis that is both terrifying and exhilarating. To avoid potentially debilitating global warming, the chemist from the California Institute of Technology says civilization must be able to generate more than 10 trillion watts of clean, carbon-free energy by 2050. That level is three times the U.S.’s ave...

Reinventing the square wheel.

Many of us have watched in disbelief as our friends and colleagues in the UK National Health Service (NHS) have had their clinical autonomy and professionalism eroded. Managers and purchasers of healthcare now tell UK ENT surgeons which procedures they can and cannot perform and, to a limited extent, on whom they can perform them. Adenotonsillectomy is now regarded as a ‘procedure of limited cl...

Reinventing the corpus callosotomy.

Surgical section of the corpus callosum is an old operation. It was first performed to treat epilepsy more than 75 years ago. Early procedures often consisted of a “total commissurotomy,” performed through a right frontoparietal craniotomy, with division of the entire corpus callosum, the ipsilateral fornix, the anterior commissure, and even the massa intermedia of the thalamus. Subsequently, s...