The exhibition, launching in the International Year of Chemistry, is curated by David Grayson, Daniel O’Donovan, Hugh Aldersey-Williams and Michael John Gorman, and is a partnership between Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin and the BergamoScienza festival, with the assistance of researcher Brigid Lanigan and advisor Silvia Giordani. Source: Science Gallery, Dublin Continue reading Elements: The beauty of chemistry
Hervé This (pronounced: [tis]; born 1955 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French physical chemist who works for the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique at AgroParisTech, in Paris (France). His main area of scientific research is molecular gastronomy, that is the science of culinary phenomena (more precisely, looking for the mechanisms of phenomena occurring during culinary transformations). Source: Wikipedia Continue reading Chemistry of Cooking
Kevin Smith: ‘I haven’t taken my shirt off since I was nine’ Source: The Guardian Weight has always been an issue. Two years ago it all came to a head when I was thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines for being “too fat”. The airline suggested I was too big for one seat and that I needed two. Now, I’m the first to admit I’m fat, but I’m not … Continue reading Obesity
René Redzepi: ‘What we eat matters. There’s no conflict between a better meal and a better world’ Source: The Observer, Sunday 14 August 2011 My father, a Muslim immigrant in Denmark, has had all the typical working-class jobs. He’s lugged heavy crates as a greengrocer, driven people around Copenhagen at night in taxis. He has cleaned stacks of dirty glasses and espresso cups. In fact, it … Continue reading Gastronomy
Dr. Joel Feinstein’s blog is all about the use of technology in mathematical education. He is from the mathematics department in Nottingham. *** David Read is a School Teacher Fellow in Chemistry at the University of Southampton. Simon Lancaster is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of East Anglia. They recently published an article in the magazine ‘Education in chemistry’ published by the … Continue reading Using technology in the classroom Part III
The current issue of Journal of Chemical Education (published by American Chemical Society) has many articles on technology enabled learning. I have listed the hyperlinked titles of articles below. If you want to get the full text, you can either pay for the article you need or contact the authors directly. I would strongly recommend all high school chemistry teachers to subscribe to this journal (costs … Continue reading Using technology in the classroom Part II
A video explaining the picket fence method to convert from one unit to another. Basic principles and calculations in chemical engineering is a good textbook resource to learn about units and conversions, mole calculations and many other interesting topics on chemical industries. Continue reading Picket fence method
A video explaining the origin of carbon-carbon pi bonds in unsaturated molecules. Video was made using iPad2 using the screenchomp app. Continue reading Pi-Bonds
Baroness Susan Greenfield is a professor at the Department of Pharmacology in Lincoln College, University of Oxford. She has published several books on the topic of technology and the mind and the talk she gave on the future of brain is fascinating. Continue reading Technology and the mind
Perpetual Motion of Thought 