Added a totally cool Chat feature to the website. Just look at the embedded chat client to your right. I’ll try to leave it on for the break so you can try it out and talk to me. Let me know what you think!!!
If you want to synch up with the chemicalforums chat client on your site, here is the embed tags:
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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 Dow’s line of GLUTEXtm products. From what I can tell they are just a line of special disinfectants for avian flu. If you want to read more about this product line you can read their featured article about it here: ...
In a recent article by Carol Waseleski, in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, she investigates the overabundance of exclamation marks, also known as exclamation points, by female bloggers. A typical reason given for all the exclamation marks is, females are more likely to become excitable and that the exclamation marks are “markers of excitability”. But Waseleski argues that the exclamation marks are “markers of friendly interaction” and shove your gender-biases...
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 blog.
Note2: Yes, I’m bragging. Oh-well…
Mitch
Steve Morris has an interesting paper out in the Journal of Physiological and Biochemical Zoology arguing that elephants can not get drunk in the wild from eating rotting fruit from the Marula tree.
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The suggestion that the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) becomes intoxicated from eating the fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea) is an attractive, established, and persistent tale…Such tales, it seems, may result from “humanizing” elephant behavior.
He proves this...
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 brains and vegetate in front of a computer and un-stress from the dreariness and bleakness of lab-life, PIs, coworkers. For those of you I recommend Lunchtimers’ multiplayer jigsaw game. See an image...
Some people have hobbies like rock-climbing, sky-diving, something called research. One of my favorite hobbies is trying to figure out the secret identities of anonymous chemistry bloggers, which is just a manifestation of my desire to figure everything out and thus why I’m in science in the first place. I have a good track record on the matter, I figured out Tot.Syn before he announced it to the world. I know the unmasked true identity of thechemblog a.k.a. Mitsunobu inverter, just don’t...
So we talked about Interaction Barriers previously, but I didn’t really mention how one would go about and calculate it. I won’t go in details on how it is done, but I’ll show you all the equations you’ll need to calculate them yourself. The formula I’m using is called the Bass Interaction Formula and is taken mainly from Nuclear Physics A231 (1974) 45-46.
Where Zt and Zp are the number of protons in the target and projectile respectively. e2 is the familiar e2 which...
I can’t always be gentle with the reader and clearly define and explain in simple English why we are interested in what nuclear chemists find interesting. That being said, I’ll jump into this next topic.
I’ve come across the term, Interaction Barrier, several times now and I’ve finally figured out what it means. At first I thought the interaction barrier was a nicer way to say the coulomb barrier. I thought it was a term that the learned nuclear scientist used to describe...
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
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
This little devil of a time waster has helped me gobble several hours of routine night shift duties at the cyclotron. The game lets you face a computer or a friend in some head-to-head grenade tossing action. The game is in flash format and very addictive. The AI is hard to beat at first, but now I can beat 6 computer AIs at the same time with only one player. The game is more fun with a friend or if you play against yourself. Enjoy the latest addtion to our time wasters, clicking the picture will...
