After zoooology [mentioned here earlier today] comes chemstry. This master of science dissertation is revealing: “Improving student comprehension in chemstry laboratories“, Tracy Lynn Haroff, M.S., Michigan State University, 2006, 110 pages; AAT 1438107.
Tag: chemistry
Brandishing a handgun — for science!
Eric Weddle reports, in jconline: When Herbert C. Brown, Purdue University’s first Nobel Prize winner, walked into a hall at Harvard University circa 1960 and laid a handgun on the table, his audience got the point.”There was a joke going around that he should come armed because there was a lot of controversy at the […]
Mendeleev party limerick challenge
This week’s limerick challenge: Write a limerick (in proper limerick form) explaining what Dmitri Medeleev, the father of the periodic table of the elements, might have though had he seen this European Commission video called “Chemical Party”. (Thanks to Roger Highfield for bringing it to our attention.)
Man in white suit Monday night
Next Monday, Sept 6, at 7:00 pm, at the Coolidge Corner Cinema, in Brookline, MA, Marc Abrahams (the man in the blue suit — an Ig Nobel Prize-winning self-perfuming business suit) will introduce a special showing of the classic Alec Guinness film “The Man in the White Suit“. Daniel Rosenberg (the man in the white […]