ACS blogs

As of August 2022, Industry Matters moved from a weekly newsletter of the American Chemical Society's Industry Member Programs to monthly.  For most of 2022, my column appeared every three weeks in the Industry Matters newsletter, also commonly re-released in the ACS Matters newletter.  I was asked to blog for the ACS starting in April 2015.   Previously,  I wrote a monthly blog on topics related to the chemical industry for Industry Voices.  Changes in ACS staffing put Industry Voices on hiatus, ultimatley to be recast as Industry Matters. 

  Date Blog Link
  8 December 2022 Carved In Stone ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  8 December 2022 Road Salt Revisited ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  3 November 2022 Woodpecker Chemistry ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  11 August 2022 Meetings:  None of us is as dumb as all of us ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  14 July 2022 Testing the Limits of Recycling - Part 2 ACS Industry Matters  | text | LinkedIn
  16 June 2022 Limits to Circular ACS Industry Matters  |  text  | LinkedIn
  26 May2022 New Dangers in the Woods ACS Industry Matters  |  text  | LinkedIn
  5 May 2022 A Little Despair on Earth Day ACS Industry Matters text  | LinkedIn
  14 April 2022 Good Luck With That! ACS Industry Matters  |  text  | LinkedIn
  24 March 2022 Smelly Buckets ACS Industry Matters  |  text  | LinkedIn
  3 March 2022 The Magnesium Shortage Is No Typical Supply Chain Issue ACS Industry Matters  |  text  | LinkedIn
  10 February 2022 George Curme:  A name every industrial chemisty should know ACS Industry Matters  |  text  |  LinkedIn
  20 January 2022 Better for Travel, Worse for the Environment ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  16 December 2021 Sustainability for the Holidays ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  18 November 2021 Get the Lead Out ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
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Thomas Midgley bibliography   | supporting calcs
  4 November 2021 Shifting from a Fuel-Intensive, to a Material-Intensive World ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  14 October 2021 Life-Giving and Life-Taking Chemistry: Toxic is sometimes what you want ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  26 August 2021 Developing A New Pasta ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
5 August 2021 Plastic Everywhere ACS Industry Matters  |  text  | LinkedIn
  1 July 2021 Vaccinated Not Invincible ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  17 June 2021 Toxic Credit Cards ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn
  13 May 2021 Reason for Optimism ACS Industry Matters  | text  | LinkedIn
  8 April 2021 More Gratitudes for Chemistry published on ACS Industry Matters ACS Industry Matters  | text  | LinkedIn
  21 May 2020 Gratitude for Chemistry published on ACS Industry Matters ACS Industry Matters  | text  | LinkedIn
  7 May 2020 COVID questions in ACS Industry Matters ACS Industry Matters
30 April 2020 COVID questions in ACS Industry Matters ACS Industry Matters
  1 July 2019 What I Learned column in ACS Industry Matters What I Learned
  17 March 2017 Robotics and artificial intelligence: can they make today’s chemist obsolete? ACS Industry Voices
  4 January 2017 My Favorite Patents:  How I am in awe of the inventor of the self-inflating whoopee cushion ACS Industry Voices
7 October 2016 The Scientific Literacy Paradox ACS Industry Voices  text
16 September 2016 Going in Circles ACS Industry Voices
12 August 2016 The Degrading State of Composting ACS Industry Voices text
  14 July 2016 Where There’s Smoke: Getting Risk Right ACS Industry Voices text
  24 June 2016 Chemistry on Display: Depictions in Ads and Art ACS Industry Voices text
  11 May 2016 Chemistry Failed Me: My battle with the Emerald Ash Borer ACS Industry Voices text
  21 March 2016

Planting Trees You'll Never Use For Shade

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  3 March 2016 I Just Wrecked My Platinum Footprint ACS Industry Voices
  29 January 2016 Not Again: Flint and the Consequences of Following the Law Instead of Its Intent ACS Industry Voices
  16 December 2015 Sometimes the Axes Are Just Orthogonal ACS Industry Voices
  25 November 2015 Is Education the Answer?  At least in the case of smoking, the ability of education to alter behavior has reached a limit. ACS Industry Voices
  23 October 2015 They Lied to Me (and You):  lamentations of a VW diesel owner ACS Industry Voices
  24 September 2015 No Brand Love for Chemical Companies:  chemical history seems never to be fondly rememebered ACS Industry Voices
  18 August 2015 Cheap Enough to Eat?  Shale gas is so cheap and abundant that technologies are being deployed to make it directly into food. ACS Industry Voices
  17 July 2015 Ambiguous Definitions Are The Enemy Of Agreement: a comparison of the concepts safe and sustainable ACS Industry Voices
  5 June 2015 The Paradox of Making Something Everyone Needs: eggs are related to chemical production ACS Industry Voices
  24 April 2015 Retractions: perils of the patent literature, where nothing is retracted, are outlined ACS Industry Voices