Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: A Word Chemistry Lab Needs Organizing

In this puzzle, pairs of words can “react” together to produce a new word.

May 23, 2021 at 12:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

Have you ever heard of "Word Stoichiometry"? We just invented it.
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This past week was the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair, a worldwide competition among high school science whizzes, who present top-notch research in everything from botany to astrophysics.

I’ve been involved in the Fair for years — first as a student, and now as co-chair of the Mathematics category.5Seeing the work of so many brilliant high school researchers — this year virtually — made me made me pretty nostalgic for the days when I was first learning science.