Tuesday, May 6, 2008

A brief pause for chemistry

Highlight of the day:

Hearing a Nobel laureate (when asked to comment/improve on a low yielding reaction) say "You know, it's hard to help improve a reaction when you don't know the byproducts. What else is in there?"

Someday, I'm going to wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night, asking "Where's the rest of the material?"

We now return to you to your regularly scheduled Obama-hoping.

1 comment:

Jim said...

I might note that it was not me who asked the question. I, of course, always characterize all of the side products.