A list of small, useful things (links):
- The latest "What Chemists Do" video from the American Chemical Society, featuring Dr. Jerbrena Jacobs, Medtronic senior scientist.
- Ash, on pathological science.
- A few posts from Carmen, one about sunscreen, the chemistry-related Superbowl ad and the new, weird sodium/helium compound.
- A recent correction in JACS, written about by Jyllian Kemsley at The Safety Zone
- Epic Twitter rant from friend of the blog Matt Hartings.
- I enjoyed this post from C&EN Onion.
- A lovely post about the chemistry of rosemary.
- A couple of fun profiles from Nature Chemistry.
- The latest from Stellen fuer Chemiker.
- ...and the latest from All Things Metathesis.
- And one on intermediates from Prof. Yudin.
Again, an open invitation to all interested in writing a blog, a hobby that will bring you millions thousands hundreds tens of dollars joy and happiness. Send me a link to your post, and I'd be happy to put it up.
Re: Carmen Drahl's post about the Bill Nye Superbowl ad.
ReplyDelete1. Who cares about the "outdated" periodic table? Those newly discovered elements are completely irrelevant to working chemists. I'd be more concerned about having the latest values of the atomic weights for elements we do use in real life.
2. It is bad form to store solutions in volumetric flasks, but the fact they they are not filled to the mark now does not prove that they weren't originally used correctly, then some of the solution was dispensed. (But of course they're actually just there to be pretty colors, which itself is mildly objectionable.)
3. It's not chemistry, but why did she NOT comment on the phrase "ten dimensions of clean," which is obvious "science-y" marketing BS. And multiple dimensions should be orthogonal to each other, not parallel (although I know that's not what they meant by "parallel").