http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-te.alchemy22jul22,0,3470071.story?track=rss%20
http://tinyurl.com/zl7v8 "By Michael Stroh Sun reporter Originally published July 22, 2006 PHILADELPHIA // It's not exactly a seminar at Hogwarts. But Harry Potter devotees would still feel right at home with the scholars gathering this week to discuss the philosopher's stone, arsenic and the finer points of transmuting lead to gold. "I have a few flasks heating back in Baltimore as we speak," says Larry Principe, a Johns Hopkins professor of chemistry and history whose academic specialty might be dubbed experimental alchemy." <more>
