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October 20, 2006

Are You Sure that Ketel One is in the Protocol?

I am no longer as excited as I used to be about The Disgruntled Chemist's beer blogging. This is because I just read a brief news item in the "Sidelines" section of the September 21 Nature, which reads (possibly behind pay wall):download Sim Theme Park 2.1.4

Chemists' nights out

Japanese police have launched a desperate search for three bottles of potentially deadly hydrofluoric acid, after an official from Shimonoseki Mitsui Chemicals who was carrying them one night got so drunk he couldn't remember what he did with them.

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If you can get to the Nature link, you'll also find a bit about this story, where a Chinese philosopher claims to have found a novel proof of the four color conjecture, another writer challenges this claim, and then the philosopher challenges him to an academic duel to the death. Literally, to the death. "If my proof is correct, you commit suicide. If not, I do." download Sim Theme Park 2.1.4

Judging from this very extensive sample, I think we can conclude that Asia is a scary, scary place.download Sim Theme Park 2.1.4

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