Article: AH, MOLECULES

Someone asked me the other day why I never write about chemistry in this column.

I'll tell you why. Chemistry is boring. Chemistry is the plain step-sister of science, the Cinderella who is never asked out, the child of dust and ashes. Physics and biology are the glamorous sisters, all dolled up in their fancy gowns and flashy jewels.

Physicists pursue "fundamental" laws of nature. Biologists study the wonders of life. And what does chemistry have to offer? Molecules. Just molecules.

Physicists are about to spend several billion dollars on a superconducting supercollider, a stupendously expensive machine designed to explore the subatomic world of quarks, squarks, gluons, gluinos and other ...

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