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Better Living Through Chemistry is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed and written by David Posamentier and Geoff Moore. [2] The film stars Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan, Ben Schwartz, Ken Howard, Ray Liotta, and Jane Fonda. The film was released on March 14, 2014.
About The Film. If it weren’t for the hypocrisy of drug prohibition, everyone would know these names: Sasha Shulgin (1925 – 2014) was a chemist who discovered nearly 200 psychedelic substances. His wife and co-author, Ann Shulgin (1931 – 2022), was a lay therapist and a pioneer in the field of psychedelic psychotherapy.
Mar 15, 2014 · Written and directed by Geoff Moore and David Posamentier, the indie dramedy Better Living Through Chemistry tells the story of Doug Varney (Sam Rockwell), a small town pharmacist whose...
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Mar 13, 2014 · A Trump Tragedy: The “Apprentice” stars Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong and the director Ali Abbasi say their film is a “humanistic” treatment of Donald Trump and his mentor, Roy Cohn.
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- Geoff Moore, David Posamentier
- Chemistry: A Transforming Vision
- From Air to Food
- Giving It Up For A Miracle Drug
- Stewarding The Periodic Table
Chemistry has always concerned itself with two essential projects: understanding the nature of the material world (What is matter composed of? How is matter organized? How does matter behave?) and manipulating the raw materials of the world into new forms of matter that are more useful and valuable (How can matter be transformed?). These two projec...
In the past century, the global population has approximately quadrupled. Perhaps the most important factor behind this is the tremendous increase in global food production due to the availability of synthetic, nitrogen-rich fertilizers arising from one basic chemical reaction: the conversion of nitrogen in the air into ammonia. It is estimated that...
Despite the technological progress of the early 1900s, there was one thing that people then shared with all of humanity that had come before them: they were nearly helpless in the face of bacterial infections. It was not uncommon for people prior to the 1930s to die from bacterial diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, or even from strep throat...
So where does that leave a chemist today? Does the Christian tradition have anything to offer chemists looking to make a better world through their vocation? What are the elements of chemical stewardship? The first is a rediscovery of awe in the face of the material world. For a Christian and a chemist this implies an awe of God—an acknowledgement ...
In Olivia Wilde: Acting career: House, Rush, and Babylon. In Better Living Through Chemistry (2014), she played a married woman who has a drug-fueled affair with a pharmacist (Sam Rockwell). Read More. Other articles where Better Living Through Chemistry is discussed: Olivia Wilde: Acting career: House, Rush, and Babylon: In Better Living ...
Better Living Through Chemistry is a 2014 American comedy-drama film directed and written by David Posamentier and Geoff Moore. The film stars Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Michelle Monaghan, Ben Schwartz, Ken Howard, Ray Liotta, and Jane Fonda.
