personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
Aug 23rd 2007nerd alert & rants
A senator (D, of course) has proposed a $25 billion education package that includes “free tuition” for students majoring in science, math, engineering, and “technology”. (Whatever kinds of “technology” are not included in “science” and “engineering”, that is. Air conditioning repair?) It’s not entirely “free”, since there’s a string attached: “Students must [...]
Aug 9th 2007eyes & nerd alert
One of the more interesting things to do with data - at least certain types of data - is to look at it. As the “Small World” Photomicrography competition puts it, “…a good photomicrograph is also an image whose structure, color, composition, and content is an object of beauty, open to several levels of [...]
Aug 2nd 2007General & nerd alert & rants
Been a bit frustrated at work this week - well, okay, for at least the last year now, but at least this is a different