Silent Spring: Landscape after sixty years

Fifty years since Silent Spring.

Rachel Carson's 1962 Silent Spring exposed both observed and potential environmental and health externalities of the increasing organochlorine and organophosphate insecticide use in the United States post-World War II. Silent Spring was a critical component in a popular movement that resulted in increased regulation and the development of safer pesticides. Most changes in pesticide use in the g...

The General Theory after sixty years

Indanthrone dye revisited after sixty years.

Indanthrone, an old, insoluble dye can be converted into a solution processable, self-assembling and electroluminescent organic semiconductor, namely tetraoctyloxydinaptho[2,3-a:2',3'-h]phenazine (P-C8), in a simple one-pot process consisting of the reduction of the carbonyl group by sodium dithionite followed by the substitution with solubility inducing groups under phase transfer catalysis co...

Re-reading Silent Spring.

'Department of Surger!., UniversitY Hospital, S-751 85 Lppsala, Sweden: -Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Universitv Hospital, S-751 85 Lppsala, Swteden: 3Department of Pathology, U'niversitv Hospital, S-751 85 Uppsala, Sw eden: 'Department of Statistics, Lppsala L'niversitY, Box 513, S-751 20 Uppsala, Sw eden: 5Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusett...

Sixty years of haematology.

T he diamond anniversary of the Journal of Clinical Pathology (JCP) provides the opportunity to reflect of the past 60 years of haematology. It offers the chance to look back as well as forwards. This has been a time of unforeseeable advances, of which I remember only those of the past 40 years. Review of the articles published by the journal in its first decade immediately makes evident the ch...