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Doug the Shuttle Driver
So we all know about Joe the Plumber. But do you know about Doug the shuttle driver? This story is just sad on so many levels. As you may know, the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was recently announced, and the award (w… -
Biographical Memoir
Thanks to Professor Kent J Bradford, my father's friend, colleague, and former student, for writing this memoir for the National Academy of Sciences.http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/syang.pdf -
Science Hall of Fame
The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 72 new members following its annual meeting last week. Signed into being by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, its purpose is to provide scientific and technological expe… -
Science Fair 2008
I'm off tomorrow to judge the 2008 Ventura County Science Fair. I waffled a bit on what subject to judge. The application asked me to list, in order, my three preferences for what subject to judge. I put #1 chemistry,… -
stamps
Hooray, the American Scientist stamps are outI bought some, but they're not all for me. As you may recall, in an earlier post (whose picture has evidently expired), I asked what was wrong with the structure in the Gert… -
how it was
I remarked to a friend (who is a graduate student in chemistry) that this comic brings back memories. She told me I look like the subject of the comic. -
what's wrong with this picture?
To the first person who tells me what's wrong with the structure, I'll buy you a few postage stamps You have to be specific -
Scrap Fractions?
Link here. DeTurck is a professor at the Univ of Pennsylvania."Fractions have had their day, being useful for by-hand calculation," DeTurck said as part of a 60-second lecture series. "But in this digital age, they're a… -
Righting History II
Some further insights into the late 1970's race to identify the intermediate between SAM and ethylene. Tremendous thanks to my unnamed source, himself a graduate student in the 1970's, in recalling these events from the…
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