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Since this blog is feeling a little multiple-personality-syndromey, I’m starting a new blog over at wordpress called Chemistry Learning, where I will, from now on, put all my posts about teaching and environmental chemistry and education-related geek stuff. This blog (the one you’re reading now) will be more specifically a personal blog. I know, I don’t post often enough to have two blogs. But, I wanted to make the teaching posts more of a project, so that will hopefully pick up. In the meantime, I ported some representative posts from here to there, so that it isn’t empty. The header image is stock, and will hopefully change once I have a spare minute to think about graphic design.
The wild wild world of web!
Since the dawn of Windoze 95, I’ve secretly (and not so secretly) hated all Microsoft products. That’s why I use OpenOffice.org instead of M$-Office! But, there is one thing that has been cheesing me off for the longest time about OpenOffice: You haven’t been able to graph data with different error bars on each data point. The only error bars you could add had to all have the same value. Which is stupid. Who measures numbers that all have the same error? Seriously. How useless is that feature? Well, worry no more! You can now graph data with independent columns of error data! Check out my data and all their gloriously variable errors!
I think I peed my pants. Just a little bit.
Hup Hup Hurrah! Hold onto your foam eyeballs, muppetics! Hulu is now featuring a large selection of videos from Sesame Street! Here is Johnny Cash telling Oscar the Grouch to have a rotten day:
Check it out, another awesome Jerry Schnoor editorial in Environmental Science & Technology. He keeps me feeling positive about whether scientists can communicate relevant and accessible commentary on public policy. Schnoor talks about the politics of writing energy legislation/regulation that would actually do something, and recommends an official ES&T-endorsed three-step plan. It’s pretty punchy. Here’s a good quote:
This year Congress debated the Climate Security Act. Last year we passed the Energy Independence and Security Act (but it hasn’t worked yet). If I wanted education reform, I’d label it the Stupidity Prevention and Security Act. But that’s a topic for another editorial.We need to have journalism awards for scientific journals. There are several good contenders in the ACS.
If you do any kind of wet chemistry or molecular biology, you probably have some supplies in your lab from Eppendorf International. Well, they have a new robotic pipetting machine. And, what better way to sell robots to scientists than by casting a ridiculous boy band and filming a music video!?!
Here’s the awesome video:
[via boing boing via lynn’s google reader shares]
Perhaps it’s a response to BioRad’s PCR music video?
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