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Weekly Chemistry Comic: Dr. Elements from icpsupplies.com

Thursday, January 18th, 2007 (188 Views)

www.icpsupplies.com has a catchy gimmick to keep you coming back to their website. They have a chemistry themed weekly webcomic strip! I'm not going to say they are all hilarious every week, but they are really good. They seem to cater more to the chemist in industry than the chemistry ...

HGS’ Molecular Model Sets

Monday, January 15th, 2007 (80 Views)

I've been looking for a good looking molecular model set and decided to purchase HGS' Stereochemistry Molecular Model 4010 Student Set. The set came with everything I needed to make the organic structures I'm interested in. A picture of a molecule I made with the molecular model kit is shown ...

Finally Configured a Chemical Forums Blog RSS Feed

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 (272 Views)

Many of you have asked for an RSS feed for Chemical Forums and I will now deliver. To generate an RSS feed that only displays the blog entries from Chemical Forums and not all the other posts was trickier than I expected, but I know none of you care how ...

Happy Birthday, Mitch, wherever you are

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 (119 Views)

I shouldn't do this, but, nevertheless, I have to reveal why Mitch is not here on his birthday. Rumour has it that he left the US with a suspicious package containing potentially radioactive material: some say donuts, others believe plutonium, I know plutonium-glazed donuts. No matter what he told you, we have ...

Mitch is on vacation so the Secret Guest Bloggers will be taking over

Saturday, December 16th, 2006 (340 Views)

I'm going on a much needed vacation for the next week or so. But don't worry you will still get your chemical blogging fix. There will be 2 very popular chemical bloggers, whose identities will remain secret for now, who will post in my absence. See you all later and ...

Bird Flu Mascot

Sunday, November 19th, 2006 (88 Views)

The Dow Chemical Company has a slick redesigned homepage. When you visit the site a random image is shown that relates to one of their products. One of my favorite images is of a rooster wearing a medical face-mask, shown below. The rooster picture, or bird flu mascot, ties in with ...

Chemical Forums Statistics

Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 (80 Views)

Showing stats seems to be the new recent trend: http://totallysynthetic.com/blog/?p=349, I don't want to make the other bloggers feel bad, so I'll only post the amount of traffic we received yesterday. Unique Visitors for 11/13/06: 2,814 Page Views for 11/13/06: 7,046 Note1: This is the traffic data to chemicalforums global, and not just this ...

Grad Student Time Waster Tip #4: LunchTimers’ Jigsaw Game

Sunday, November 12th, 2006 (81 Views)

I've never been one of those stressed out individuals you'll find in life/lab. I guess it's because I've lived in California my whole life and come from a sleepy coastal town in southern California. But, there are a lot of people out there that just need to turn off their ...

High School Chemistry Lab Fire in Gibsonville North Carolina

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 (190 Views)

Apparently a fire in the Chemistry lab ended up burning a significant portion of the school down. Hopefully, an investigation into the matter will be concluded swiftly so we can learn from Gibsonville's mistake. Below is an image of the school + fire. Article: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4305963.html Mitch

Saturday, October 28th, 2006 (61 Views)

If you are a potential thief, I hope you'll realize it's not worth this kind of trouble. Enjoy this video from the most ticked off professor I have ever seen. Click picture to see video. Mitch