I’m not one of those people who is already sick of the election, rather I’m fascinated by it as the first General Election that I’ve been fairly engaged with. In 2005 I was in Canada, and didn’t have time to organize a postal ballot. In 2001 I was a student in the final weeks of my [...]
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The Guardian has an article today about science and how science is now cool. It’s causing a bit of discussion over on twitter (nothing new there then). But lets look at the article: “How science became cool The incredible ambition of the Large Hadron Collider has fired our imagination; physicists have become cult TV stars; dramatic [...] I’ve been thinking about over structured lectures quite a bit lately. Actually I may just be getting truly sick of powerpoint, and be contemplating rebellion. I get that providing some kind of outline to the lecture is helpful in the production of good notes to revise from, but its also so difficult to incorporate interactive elements and for [...] Lead is… 1. the reason plumbing is called plumbing. Lead’s chemical symbol Pb is derived from the Latin word plumbum meaning soft metal. The Romans used lead for their water pipes because it is soft enough to be easily molded. 2. no longer in petrol. Lead compounds were used in petrol to improve the octane rating (makes car [...] I’ve reached a point with references and referencing where I am tearing my hair out. Here’s the how and why of referencing (which may form a draft of something I give to students next year). Good referencing is like addressing an envelope properly – there are certain styles and conventions that must be followed in order for [...] Hydrogen is… 1. the most abundant element in the universe. 2. extremely flammable but you need oxygen for it to explode (YouTube of Nottingham’s Video). 3. a diatomic gas at room temperature and pressure – H2 (diatomic – two atoms joined together by bonds, one bond in the case of H2) 4. the main component of the gas giant [...] Lecturers aren’t teachers, no matter how great the teaching focus of our institution is. There are major differences between classroom management 0f 5 – 16 year olds, and wrangling a lecture theatre full of adult students of varying background. For a start, university lecturers are researchers first and usually foremost. They will have been employed on [...] I didn’t have time over the long weekend to do any blogging – too much ‘real life’ stuff going on. So I’m taking advantage of another project that requires internet time to make a list of some UK based chemistry (+ related) blogs. Mostly this is based on the Periodic Table of David Bradley! Some of [...] |
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