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• The Billionth of a Kilogram Effect

  

  Early in the semester, my students invariably turn in a lab done in pencil, or worse yet, a lab corrected with correction fluid. Read more

  Posted on 25 February 2013 SCIENCE

• Into Everlasting Fire.... The Economist December Holiday Issue

  During my long break from this blog I've been catching up on personal and professional matters of all sorts- cleaning my house, updating my baby gear to... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2013 SCIENCE

• The Obesity Epidemic..... Focus of a 14-page Special Report in The Economist

  

  Michelle Obama decided to focus on this during her husband's first term in office. Commercials on TV flash "healthy" snacks, exercise programs (P90X anyone?) an... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 SCIENCE

• Solutions and Basic Chemistry

  As I prepared my lectures on solutions and then about acids and bases I decided a post about solutions would be in the same vein as a post about salts in basic... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2012 SCIENCE

• Baking Soda Lab

  

  This is a conceptual drawing of the baking soda lab. I love this lab because it asks the students to really think about the concept of molar quantities. Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2012 SCIENCE

• #Foodchem Carnival: I Am Most Thankful for Table Salt This Thanksgiving

  

  Last year when I was at home with my young infant daughter during the holidays I watched Lucinda Scala Quinn (on the TV show Mad Hungry) cure a salmon. Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2012 SCIENCE

• Shape and Polarity

  

  Because I don't want all of my images to be taken from one copyrighted source here on this blog I decided to surf the web for good images of 3-dimensional... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2012 SCIENCE

• Balloon Representations of VSEPR Shapes

  

  It seems to be very hard for students to initially picture the VSEPR shapes of molecules. They draw the Lewis dot structures and then get really hung up on... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 SCIENCE

• Spiderman, Regenerative Medicine, the 2012 Nobel Prize and the Future....

  

  (Dr. Curtis Connors from the movie Spiderman)The most recently released version of Spiderman shows a mad scientist obsessed with his own ability to transform... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2012 SCIENCE

• #ChemCoach: Adventures in Working.....

  

  In honor of National Chemistry Week I am participating in #ChemCoach hosted by See Arr Oh of Just Like Cooking blog. I am supposed to write a summary about my... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2012 SCIENCE

• "You’re Really Going to Make My Son Spend a Whole Year in a Subject He Will Neve...

  

  The title of this article was copied from a post on a blog of The Washington Post. This particular statement provoked some strong feelings I've developed about... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2012 SCIENCE

• Chem 13 News- September Edition

  

  I just received my copy of the September edition of Chem 13 News from the University of Waterloo in Canada. They had contacted me about using an article from... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2012 SCIENCE

• Frustration Over the Empirical Formula Lab

  Why is it that every year we do this experiment and every year people get ratios that don't make sense? I thought that if you put the lid on your crucible... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2012 SCIENCE

• Quicktime Movies on Some of My Favorite Chemistry Topics.....

  I found these and thought they were really helpful in explaining some fundamental concepts in introductory chemistry:1. Periodic Trends video2. Multiple... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2012 SCIENCE

• Access Technology Here I Come!

  

  This is a picture of an access database relationships window. I pulled this off the web (it is random). However, it looks very, very similar to the way MY Acces... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2012 SCIENCE

• Measurement and Uncertainty

  I am grading labs right now and reflecting on the importance of not only reporting a measurement with the correct units but also including the correct number... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 SCIENCE

• Juggle, Juggle, Juggle as a Mom

  A few days a week, I get up at the crack of dawn to drive up to Orange County to teach an introductory chemistry class. As much as I enjoy teaching the class, i... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2012 SCIENCE

• Listen. Write. Present. A Review

  Listen. Write. Present: The Elements for Communicating Science and TechnologyStephanie Roberson Barnard and Deborah St. James. 2012. New Haven, CT: Yale... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2012 SCIENCE

• Nutrition Lesson 101

  While I was pregnant last year it became evident that I had inherited my Swedish grandmother's tendency for anemia. Yes, I was iron deficient. Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2012 SCIENCE

• Fundamental Questions in Science......

  There is a post over at the Curious Wavefunction (click here) that explores some of the questions that make science fascinating. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2012 SCIENCE