I only have time for a quick post before I run off to David Schwartz‘s talk on ’Environmental genomics and human health.’ I just left the H.C. Brown Legacy Symposium, where Professor Sharpless talked about ‘click’ chemistry, azido-phobia, pandas, and Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control (which he highly recommended). Needless to say, it was a great talk and I learned a few new things about ‘click’ chemistry: it turns out that the Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition works pretty well in Jack Daniel’s whiskey and in human plasma…

I also bumped into Mark Peplow, who used to work at Nature and is now the editor of Chemistry World. He’s blogging about the conference, and he’s not alone: the ACS, Tenderblog, the Chem Blog, and Chemical Forums are here too… Update: C&EN and Peter Murray-Rust are also blogging from the conference.

Joshua

Joshua Finkelstein (Associate Editor, Nature)

It’s three weeks since Science Foo Camp, which now seems both a lifetime ago and only yesterday. In that time we’ve received tons of feedback from the people who came, and I’ve attended O’Reilly’s technogeek Foo Camp (the original inspiration for SciFoo). So perhaps this is a good time to review what we did, consider how it went, and start outlining plans for the future.

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