When one does my job(s), and one writes the kind of stuff that I write, the question of what my favorite element might be comes up a lot - quite a...
My favorite element
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A Book List for Chemistry Teachers
Here's a book list for chemistry teachers inspired by Lowell Thomson, the globetrotting chemistry educator, as he throws down a challenge. Actually...
Discovering all kinds of things!
I am now two weeks in to my Fellowship at The Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, PA, and it has already been an amazing experience. Being...
Chemistry Venn’s
Today is the 180th birthday of John Venn, the Englishman who invented the Venn diagram. Today's Google Doodle celebrates this fact. This led me to...
Are there really only, ’92 naturally occurring elements’?
This question recently came up on the AP Chemistry listserv, and rather than answering it there (where I like to keep things strictly AP Chem if I...
