Land of the Lost: Ferrell/McBride chemistry makes it worth it
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- Land of the Lost: Ferrell/McBride chemistry makes it worth it
- Unexplained atmospheric chemistry detected
- Green chemistry firm is first Bioeconomy Institute tenant in Holland
Land of the Lost: Ferrell/McBride chemistry makes it worth it
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Whether it’s remnants of their work together on HB?s ?Eastbound and Down? or the fact that Danny McBride can?t open his mouth without cursing the twosome brought an edge to a film that otherwise could have easily passed under the box office radar. Though the 1974 TV show and its 1991 remake are both marketed as children’s shows this remake is marketed more as a parody than an adaptation. The bottom line: Don?t bring your kids to this film unless you want them to walk our grabbing each other?s breasts to say hello dropping the F-bomb and wanting to get intoxicated off alcoholic fruit. ?Land of the Lost? more than anything else is a kid?s movie made for adults.
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Unexplained atmospheric chemistry detected
Science News
The team?s next step says Rohrer will include testing samples of air from the region in the lab to see if light-stimulated reactions produce similarly anomalous amounts of hydroxyl radicals. Results of the new research ?are interesting? says Jeff Gaffney an atmospheric chemist at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. ?I?m not surprised that models [of atmospheric chemistry] are unable to accurately estimate hydroxyl levels when there are a lot of volatile organic chemicals in the air? he notes. Another possible complication to getting accurate field data he adds is that some of the atmosphere?s volatile substances are so reactive that they disappear before equipment can measure them. With new advances in equipment scientists are just now able to make some types of atmospheric measurements in heavily polluted air says Allen L. Robinson an environmental engineer at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. f the team?s study site in the Pearl River delta he notes: ?There?s obviously some interesting chemistry going on there.
Green chemistry firm is first Bioeconomy Institute tenant in Holland
MSU Today
laboratoryClick on an image to view a larger or high-resolution version. — A Michigan State University technology spinoff company is the first tenant in MSU’s new Bioeconomy Institute located in a former Pfizer Inc. laboratory in Holland Mich. Biochemistry professor Rawle Hollingsworth has operated his company AFID Therapeutics Inc.
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