Star Picks
With X-Men madness at every turn, this is an amusing side-step away from Mendeleev's old-fashioned elemental discoveries. Each clickable element brings you the likes of Doom Patrol and Superman. There are hundreds of pix from the last few decades of classic comic books and with superhero "Silver" wrapping himself around the evil Darzz in 1968's Metal Men the comic buff chemist cannot fail to be delighted.
With the Genome well mapped and with the scientists now turning their attention to the protein progeny of all those genes, we take a look at the web site of Matthias Wilm and his colleagues - European Molecular Biology Laboratory scientists with a mission. The site has an old-fashioned - like three years old-fashioned layout - but provides some exciting tools such as the PeptideSearch, which allows protein databases to be mined using mass spectrometry data. There is even a gallery of photos from the group's recent skiing weekend. Quite bizarre.
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From a journalistic point of view we'd have to avoid endorsing anything about the product being marketed through this site, but from the purely informational perspective, the site provides a nice synopsis of almost everything a sufferer might need to know about allergies in all their shapes and forms. There are allergy prevention tips too as well as a simple quiz. Such sites are becoming more and more common but as long as there's useful information among the advertising they can be useful too.
A neat site from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill covering the amazing variety of unts of measurements we use from psi to kgs. Created by Russ Rowlett, he claims that the US uses the greatest variety of units but it is probably only in the UK that a supermarket chain would opt for the old pounds and ounces because its customers fail to comprehend kilos and grams. If you don't know your bushel from your peck take a look.
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