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April 23rd, 2008 by Ψ*ΨThose of you who find it a struggle to read anything out of a journal might be intrigued by this excerpt:
“sexual freedom (including an unusual recognition…of female sexuality)”
Oh, and see also: “repeated fornication” 
I had a feeling that would get your attention! Only Roald Hoffmann could get away with publishing it in Angewandte Chemie. (Rock on, man.)
I read Angewandte Chemie for the articles. Honestly.
ha!
Hoffman is basically an apologist for carbon-based perversities.
He takes a delight in the assumed “fact” that all chemists make molecules to satisfy their carnal impulses, feverished imagination, unnatural urges and warped fetishes. It is acually only a certain number of base chemists – like Hoffman himself – that have been torturing their carbons to submission to see how many more bonds they could bent before the whole molecule ruptures – and they even like to gloat about it in public. We need new laws to put stop to this carbon cruelty.
I hope this gets de Sade an entry on Scifinder. Anyone want to figure out his h-index?
Hold on, many eminent chemistry professors have those whips…for entirely different purposes of course.
Funny you should mention that…my lab has an inflatable flail.
Whats that thing actually for? It looks like salami to me.
Ah, the sweet smell of salami…
It’s used for beating grad students (and undergrads).
I guess it looks like salami if you don’t happen to notice the inflatable mace-looking spikey ball on the end…
I’m not sure which is worse, beating undergrads with a flail or a salami.
I was trying to figure out what the big white box in the foreground was…
I’m gonna go with salami…what if they’re vegetarian?
I have no idea what the white box is. Something from Perkin-Elmer we don’t have anymore? Maybe an old fluorimeter?
In summer 1989, to celebrate the soviet invasion aniversary, my classmates in Prague cheerfully re-enacted street demonstration being dispersed by police wielding salami battons. The police helmets were made from water melons.
A polarimeter, maybe?
AFAIK, we’ve never had one. In flatland, you don’t really need to care about optical rotation.
Yeah, it’s the polarimter that’s now upstairs.
Seriously? What the hell was it doing in our lab?!
PAHs have extremely cool spectra in polarized light if you trap then in an oriented matrix (so that they are all “flat” and parallel. Those various clusters of bands in the UV or fluorescence excitation each arise from a certain orientation of the PAH. Changing the light source polarization angle or rotating the sample will cause each to increase or decrease. You get lots of isobestic points and the results look like spirographs.
Fetz the chemst
Niiiiice. Weapons of Mass Torture (WMTs) indeed do evolve. This picture should be classified and made students’ eyes-only. On the other hand, advisors are unusually creative when it comes to these, so it won’t help.
Keep your flails to yourself kids.
Nonono. You’re missing the point! A flail is meant to be shared–there’s no fun in flogging yourself.
Says who?
I so don’t want to know what you do in your free time.
“yourself” does not necessarily mean “alone”. And I mention the strawberries?
Methane in Magic Acid, carbido carbonyl clusters, US Pat. 3992424. If we beat upon a suitable precursor hard enough… C(CF3)6? Si(CF3)6 has a good chance, certainly as the siliconate dianion, then cyclic voltammetry to get data about the neutral molecule. (Those who can, do. Those who cannot, make models.)
Put a covalent end to historic patriarchal White Protestant European impressed oppression of organic carbon tetravalency. Uncle Al dreams of a bright, bright future wherein every electron is a valence electron without exclusion or discrimination.
Is anybody up for a Berkeley horse ride in Pyrex?
Speaking of kinky…. one of the labs in my department works with the notorious “kinky tail” mutant in mice. The jokes and bad puns never cease. You should see the T-Shirt.
Essays like this one is the reason why Hoffmann is my favourite science writer. Now I’ll never be able to look at a strained ring system again without feeling dirty.
hahahaha…i think that’s going to apply to me also!
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Am gonna show this to my boss and gonna see his reaction…
Just saw Roald talk about that yesterday and had the pleasure of meeting him. I love Roald, love him, love him, love him.
World of Chemistry, anyone?
Wow. Just wow. I finally finished my final paper and had time to read through this philosophical masterpiece you were kind enough to share. I laughed. I cried. I was rather cheered up after a loooong week. Thanks!
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