No need to fear a Happy New Year of chemistry

Montreal Gazette: (Chemistry prof Joe Schwarcz): "It isn't unusual for someone to come up to me after one of my public presentations and sheepishly whisper in my ear that they had failed chemistry in high school or that they couldn't cope with organic chemistry in university. I'm not sure why they feel the need to unburden their soul to me in this fashion, but I hope it has to do with having just heard a lecture about some application of chemistry that, perhaps to their surprise, they found interesting…"