Philip Robinson
Editor at Chemistry World
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Jan 23, 2025 |
therecord.com | Philip Robinson
“Question Authority” hit the bookstores at just the right time. U.S. elections were still upcoming and rhetoric, already at the overheated stage, was being taken to another level. So, it is with quiet satisfaction that we have Kingwell address the question: Is dogmatic certainty (Kingwell coins the word doxaholism: doxa for addiction to conviction) like alcoholism, a form of addictive behaviour, and just where do we go from here?
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Oct 17, 2024 |
flipboard.com | Philip Robinson
2 hours agoHarris answered questions on immigration, Trump, policies that Tim Walz signed for immigrants, and her economic agenda. In a frequently contentious, sometimes testy exchange, Vice President Kamala Harris went on Fox News and fielded anchor Bret Baier’s questions on immigration, the economy and her …
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Oct 16, 2024 |
chemistryworld.com | Philip Robinson
In March 2016, the Google-owned software company DeepMind put its game-playing algorithm AlphaGo up against Lee Sedol, one of the world’s best players at the ancient strategy game of Go. AlphaGo won. It was a milestone moment for AI – mastering a game of such creative complexity was widely regarded as an impossible task for a machine. At the time, I speculated (not very seriously) how long it would be until a future ‘AlphaChemistry’ would pick up a Nobel prize. In the end, it took about 8 years.
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Aug 27, 2024 |
chemistryworld.com | Philip Robinson
Since 2021, the world has been on a losing streak. Following the approval of the diabetes drug semaglutide as a weight-loss treatment, anti-obesity medicines have become one of the most used drugs with estimates that around 12% of adults have taken them in the US alone. In 2023, Science named these GLP-1 agonist drugs its breakthrough of the year. Obesity is a significant societal problem, now estimated to affect over a billion people.
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Jun 23, 2024 |
chemistryworld.com | Philip Robinson
Is there a bigger meeting of minds than in research into our own minds? Trying to understand our brains is one of the most interdisciplinary efforts in all science, occupying researchers from diverse disciplines and spanning the scale from individual atoms to whole societies. Biologists and chemists seek the biomolecular basis of our brains, while medics and psychotherapists study how the brain’s function affects our health.
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So it turns out the answer to my question 'AlphaGo has a trophy, but how long will it be until AlphaChemistry has a Nobel?' was... about 8 years. #chemnobel https://t.co/P7bDYddZI8