Playing the fiercely independent Kate Sharma in the new season of “Bridgerton,” Simone Ashley has found a lot to connect with in her character, a young woman who doesn’t have time for love and struggles when confronted with it. “I’m still on the same journey, learning the balance between being serious and brave and being …
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Welcome to Group Text, a monthly column for readers and book clubs, to talk about novels, memoirs and collections of stories, ask questions and want to live in a slightly different world. ________ Here are a few words I hate in connection with fiction written by women: Sassy. squeamish. Frenzy. These so-called complementary adjectives have …
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Enrolling at the University of Florida, he majored in agrochemistry, combining his interest in science developed in middle school with his childhood passion for farming. One summer, while working at an animal nutrition lab analyzing moth excrement, he was invited by a friend to work at an organic chemistry lab run by a new college …
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded Wednesday to Benjamin List and David WC MacMillan for their development of a new tool for building molecules, advances in pharmaceutical research and reducing the environmental impact of chemistry. While his work is not seen by consumers, it is an essential piece in many leading industries and is …
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