“During the demolition of a factory, a shocking discovery is made: a mummified corpse encased in a carapace of hardened dust – phosphate rock – surrounded by ten objects that provide tantalising clues as to its identity…” That’s the backstory to Phosphate rocks, but the story is really just an […]
Nu var det återigen länge sedan jag uppdaterade sidan om mina egna artiklar, men nu är det dags igen. Den här gången med en artikel som tog nästan två år från idé till publicering. Mer om det i en kommande bloggpost. Det handlar även den här gången om en artikel […]
The story of the chemical fascination of a young boy growing up in London in the 1930s in a large Jewish family flickers in and out between biography and a history of chemistry itself. As a precocious child, Oliver Sachs, under the guidance of the title’s Uncle Tungsten, a lightbulb […]
For more than a decade now I’ve been weighing myself every few days. Here are 10 years of data. I cannot say I like that trend! It seems like I’m gaining weight at a rate about 0.4 kg per year. Ok, the trendline lies. Rather the weight seems to have […]
