Today is #MenstrualHealthDay 🩸 To mark it, here’s the second of my graphical collaborations with Periodically, the Oxford Chemistry Period Podcast, looking at the chemistry behind intrauterine devices and how they prevent pregnancy: https://wp.me/s4aPLT-iuds

There are many people
who will say they’re Christians
and they live like Christians on the Sabbath day

But come Monday morning, til the coming Sunday
They will fight their neighbor all along the way

Chorus
Oh you don’t love God, if you don’t love your neighbor
if you gossip about him, if you never have mercy
if he gets into trouble, and you don’t try to help him
then you don’t love your neighbor, and you don’t love God

In the Holy Bible, in the Book of Matthew
Read the 18th chapter in the 21st verse
Jesus plainly tells us that we must have mercy
There’s a special warning in the 35th verse

Oh you don’t love God, if you don’t love your neighbor
if you gossip about him, if you never have mercy
if he gets into trouble, and you don’t try to help him
then you don’t love your neighbor, and you don’t love God

There’s a God almighty, and you’ve got to love him
if you want salvation and a home on high

If you say you love him while you hate your neighbor
then you don’t have religion, you just told a lie

Oh you don’t love God, if you don’t love your neighbor
if you gossip about him, if you never have mercy
if he gets into trouble, and you don’t try to help him
then you don’t love your neighbor, and you don’t love God

No, you don’t love your neighbor, and you don’t love God.

By Rhonda Vincent

This is a lyrical song, a call for humanitarian concern and duty for one another.

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Constipation and diarrhoea: two extremes of a crappy spectrum. Luckily, we have medicines to deal with either, and this graphic examines the different categories and how they help get things flowing freely (or less freely) again.

How do laxative and anti-diarrhoeal medications work?

Space elevators, a way of getting cargo and materials into space without rockets, have made frequent appearances in science fiction for decades. Making them a reality, however, is challenging. In this latest edition of Periodic Graphics in C&EN, we take a look some of the material requirements for space elevators, and which existing materials might […]

What materials are strong enough for a space elevator? – in C&EN

A magical fox, running across the Arctic fells, its tail spraying snow and sparks into the air. The dead, playing football in the heavens with a walrus skull. Or the souls of dead children, dancing in the sky. These are myths surrounding the aurora, stories ancient cultures close to the North Pole told to explain […]

What causes the colours of the aurora?

An aeroplane safety briefing always instructs on using oxygen masks in an emergency, but where does this oxygen come from? This edition of Periodic Graphics looks at how chemistry cleans the air you breathe on a plane and generates the oxygen that keeps you safe in an emergency. View the full graphic on the C&EN […]

Airplane air: Emergency oxygen, ozone, and more – in C&EN

What makes cats and dogs love kibble? And what are the differences between feline and canine kibbles? This edition of Periodic Graphics in C&EN takes a look at what our pets need from their food and what manufacturers add to make it appealing to them. See and download the full graphic on the C&EN site.

The chemistry of cat and dog kibble – in C&EN

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to David Baker for computational protein design and to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper for protein structure prediction.

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Predicting protein structures