Check out the briefing's 4 case studies:
🏭 Industry withholding knowledge - #PFAS
🏭 Industry undermining independent science - #BisphenolA
🏭 Industry establishing front groups - #Benzene
🏭 Industry combining disinformation strategies - #Pesticides
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook
3 Check out the briefing's 4 case studies: 🏭 Industry withholding knowledge - #PFAS 🏭 Industry undermining independent science - #BisphenolA 🏭 Industry establishing front groups - #Benzene 🏭 Industry combining disinformation strategies - #Pesticides corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/p...
Coming up next week: Online #BeilsteinTalk “The interplay between aromaticity and reactivity” with Israel Fernández, Complutense University of Madrid 🇪🇸.
Join this FREE online talk and find out how one of chemistry’s oldest concepts can solve modern challenges.
📅 Feb 5, 2026 🕒 3–4 pm CET
✍ https://www.beilstein-institut.de/en/talks/organic-chemistry-the-interplay-between-aromaticity-and-reactivity/?M=y
#aromaticity #benzene #ComputationalChemistry #BeilsteinTalks
Save the date 📅 Feb 5, 2026 🕒 3–4 pm CET
Online #BeilsteinTalk “The interplay between aromaticity and reactivity” with Israel Fernández, Complutense University of Madrid 🇪🇸.
Join this FREE online talk and find out how one of chemistry’s oldest concepts can solve modern challenges.
#aromaticity #benzene #ComputationalChemistry #BeilsteinTalks
Largely Unregulated Petrochemical Barge Industry Is Taking Over a Texas River
Residents who live on the San Jacinto River fear chemical releases and explosions from the vessels.How benzene changed chemistry forever - with Judy Wu
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0kYMUFzylOs&si=Zlk_kypC6nlARoSP
A nice lecture on the discovery of #benzene to a wide audience at the #RoyalInstitution
#chemistry #dyes #historyofscience #scicomm #purple #petrol #plastics #crystallography
In the wake of wildfires, toxic smoke is a lasting health concern >>
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2527308122
#bushfires #FossilFuels #fires #suburbia #UrbanWildfires #air #pollution #toxins #smoke #plastics #VOCs #AirPollution #ClimateChange #benzene #acetone #health #harm #NSWLogging #PublicHealth
New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour 💜
https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/
This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow back in recirculation to fundamental light-sensitive cells themselves 👁️💡🦠
Spend time with this hue right at the edge of our perception 🎨
#benzene #Kekulé #dyes #BASF #organic #porphyrin #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon #Perkin #rhodopsin #HistoryofScience #orbitals #art
200 years ago, Michael Faraday isolated an “oily residue”, now known as #benzene, one of chemistry’s most iconic molecules.
Celebrate 200 years of benzene with @ChemistryWorld exploring its discovery and impact from benzene to graphene.
🎙️ Judy Wu & Nazario Martín.
🔗 https://www.chemistryworld.com/webinars/200-years-of-benzene-the-peculiar-molecule-that-defied-classification/4022229.article
If you want, search for: contaminated water system, cancer, and forest fire.
Because physics, closed city and town water systems are deeply infused with forest fire chemicals, and they are carcinogenic. Causing cancer.
Trump’s EPA Delayed Pollution Safeguards Ahead of Deadly US Steel Explosion
Residents of steel communities say fence-line monitoring for dangerous air pollution must be mandatory.
`Inspired by the transition metal-mediated cleavage of inert bonds through multielectron reduction and functionalization, we have discovered an unprecedented ring-opening protocol for benzene and toluene.`
Non-Profit Finds Cancer-Causing Chemical Benzene In Synthetic Braiding Hair Products https://shinemycrown.com/non-profit-consumer-reports-finds-cancer-causing-chemical-benzene-in-synthetic-braiding-hair-products/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NonProfit #CancerAwareness #ConsumerReports #Benzene #SyntheticHair
Ah, a riveting tale of the modern internet: humans battling #CAPTCHA puzzles like medieval knights 🏰, except with far less excitement and far more #JavaScript 🤖🔧. Who knew enabling JavaScript was the key to proving your humanity? Apparently, the 200th #anniversary of benzene's discovery is best celebrated by wrestling with #browser #settings. 🥳💻
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/benzene-at-200/4021504.article #internet #battles #benzene #HackerNews #ngated
On thinking and benzene
This post resonated with me. In a tiny way, I am skeptical about it given how much I found myself agreeing with it. These are the ways I think. I will wait until you go finish reading.
Go. Do it. Now.
When you are back, you can read through the parts that just makes sense.
Disclaimer: The post argues that, by definition, LLMs cannot think. I mathematically agree with this. However, I will also be the first to admit that I am not the expert to define what thinking is.
I am very interested to know and debate if we land on LLMs thinking or not. However, this post is to expand and explore how humans think. I really liked the four parts of thinking that was highlighted in the post:
Thinking in silence;
Thinking through inspiration;
Thinking by writing;
Thinking by not (actively) thinking.
I think they do a great job of highlighting the various parts of thinking as a process. However, each process is best at doing something slightly different. I break the job down as follows:
To be clear, I believe the author has hit the various ways in which you empower and encourage thinking accurately. I just wanted to call out that there are different parts of that process that might be encouraged by each of the rituals.
Finally, your brain does something incredibly powerful. I’ve never yet seen this happen by LLMs.
This is thinking by not thinking. It is passive. It happens without you forcing it, in the subconscious, while you do other things. I don’t know why it happens. I don’t understand what processes run in our subconscious mind in the background, I only know that I’ve experienced this before.
I always think back to the (apocryphal) story of the benzene ring structure. Put me in as a believer because it’s happened to me multiple times.
I'm not a #chemist , so could someone who knows please explain why #benzene is such a hazard when several hundred tons of the stuff seeps into the ground following a train derailment at 95kph?
#Czechia #Olomouc #HustopečeNadBečvou #chemistry
