My Virtual Reading Room

Cells have more mini ‘organs’ than researchers thought − unbound by membranes, these rogue organelles challenge biology’s fundamentals

(amazing, really, especially if you'd studied cell biology)

How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.

(an interesting and detailed historical perspective)

(thanks to those on my reading list--conuly and minoanmiss , I believe)

And--

Better living through chemistry (or not so much...)

Sulfanilamide Disaster

Taste of Raspberries, Taste of Death: The 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide Incident

(one of the things I found interesting in this report was the reaction of the head of the company, versus that of the research chemist...)

amaebi pointed out this article:


1985 Austrian diethylene glycol wine scandal

(one of the things I found interesting in this article is near the end, under the subtitle "Destruction of the wine", what they had to do to get rid of it...)