personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
Apr 24th 2005nerd alert
The menace of perchlorates grows again. Now 36 states (the AP says) have detected perchlorate in their drinking water. Perchlorate is at least potentially a hazard, because it can interfere with thyroid activity in adults and children, causing problems with metabolism and normal growth. Industrially, perchlorates are used as oxidizers in rocket fuel and fireworks [...]
May 14th 2004General & nerd alert
Saw a deer on the way home from work today. I was walking along through the engineering campus, which still lots of nice woodsy areas, and there was a youngish-looking white-tailed deer by the side of the road. He (?) let me get to within about 25 paces before he sort of strolled off into the woods. Sometimes I really really like this town.
Apr 24th 2004General & heart & nerd alert
Good: Rough draft of my abstract for FACSS is done. Bad: End of the semester, Cathy’s leaving. Not that I really