This post is about report writing and automation: write a thesis/project report with references in MS word more about Google drive – documentation and tutorials Automate the learning environment using scripts and extensions Writing a report in MS word These two videos are a good introduction to write a report with table of contents including cross references. Writing a thesis or a report in … Continue reading Drive, Write and Automate
iThoughts: This mindmap app enables you to create mindmap with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. Salient features Pressing “Enter” button on key board creates a sibling, while pressing space three times creates a parent. One can create link between various siblings and parents. One can add hyperlink which will take you to a web browser. From Chrome or Safari, using a bookmarklet, you can create … Continue reading Productivity – Mindmaps and file management
Notes: The inbuilt app from iOS synchronises your notes with your email account. It is a very basic app and the text need to be typed. It is available for free (Notes) Notesplus: This is the most popular notetaking app in the appstore. You can take notes using various inbuilt e-pens (felter, fountain, caligraphy, wet brush), rest your palm by pulling up the palm rest, … Continue reading Productivity – Notes taking
I have been a member of American Chemical Society for the last three years and I am glad to be part of it. I also subscribe to the journal of chemical education, which for high school teachers, is available at a reduced price. Back when I was a student at IIT Delhi, I used to look forward to reading it every week. Many of the … Continue reading Reference Manager and ACS
Passdrop: If you want to store all the passwords securely in one place, this app is great. The password database is stored in Dropbox and it is synced on the cloud. You must download the desktop application called Keepass and create the database there before you can access it on the iOS devices. App can be accessed without internet as well. Sandisk media drive: If you are limited … Continue reading Productivity Tools – Storage and Access
Sharex is a great screenshot capturing software. It enables to store your screenshots in your google drive as well as on your local folder. ShareX is a free and open source screen capturing tool for Windows so loaded with features that it may give even commercial screen capture programs a run for their money. The tool is portable too so you can run it on … Continue reading Productivity Tools: Screenshots
PDF expert lets you annotate documents, fill-in application forms, add digital signature, manage pages and save documents on the cloud (iCloud, Dropbox). Although you can also do annotation with the free acrobat app but for advanced features, you need to subscribe for £6 a month. YouTube Video PDF converter – lets you convert pretty much anything to PDF and save documents on the cloud. You can also … Continue reading Productivity Tools – Documents and Emails
The neurochemistry of power has implications for political change By Nayef Al-Rodhan, University of Oxford Power, especially absolute and unchecked power, is intoxicating. Its effects occur at the cellular and neurochemical level. They are manifested behaviourally in a variety of ways, ranging from heightened cognitive functions to lack of inhibition, poor judgement, extreme narcissism, perverted behaviour, and gruesome cruelty. The primary neurochemical involved in the … Continue reading Neurochemistry of power
In my AS level chemistry class, students study the disproportionation reaction of chlorine with alkali. In this reaction chlorine gets oxidized and reduced. While studying this topic one of the students asked how chlorine actually kills microbes. This news article published by the British journal Nature in 2008 responds to his question: …Now, researchers have found that bleach can kill bacteria by attacking proteins, quickly destroying … Continue reading Antimicrobial action of bleach
Perpetual Motion of Thought 