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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

My front yard

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 If you have ever tried to maintain a healthy, green lawn in Southern California you know that it is like pouring water down a long, dry wel...
Saturday, November 14, 2020

Viruses

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“Someday, somewhere, a virus we don’t know about is going to emerge as a major new threat to human health. We’ve seen it happen many times b...
Friday, November 06, 2020

Covid-19: First World and Third World Problems

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  Those of us with first world problems cope with Covid-19 disruptions that include the following: - Managing children stranded at home whil...
Monday, November 02, 2020

Covid-19: did someone actually eat a bat?

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“ The emergence of new viral diseases by animal-to-human host switching has been, and will likely continue to be, a major source of new huma...
Friday, October 30, 2020

COVID-19 When Doctors Disagree- Controlling the Pandemic

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 When Doctors Disagree- Controlling the Pandemic My angle: Parenting and Covid- A drive-by event This article  from the latest edition of Th...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Music during a pandemic and beyond

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“  It might seem like a no-brainer that togetherness is a primary benefit of music. But think about that idea in relation to the ways of lis...
Wednesday, October 07, 2020

A Wave of Vegetable Pride

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 Glowing neurons flashed through my subconscious- the feeling of pride. It was a moment of relief from the day-to-day failings of a parent- ...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Willy Wonka and the Thermodynamic Dilemma

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“Hot ice cream warms you up no end in freezing weather. I also make hot ice cubes for putting in hot drinks. Hot ice cubes make hot drinks h...
Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Book Review for Technical Communication

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Teaching and Learning with Technology Judy Lever-Duffy and Jean McDonald. 2014. 5th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. [ISBN 978-0-13-38...
Sunday, November 02, 2014

Magnesium gets its day in the sun!

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http://online.wsj.com/articles/lets-give-magnesium-some-love-1414778626?KEYWORDS=magnesium
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

First one up the drive (Economist, July 12, 2014)

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In reading about electronic cars in the new edition of The Economist, I was reminded about an important difference between capacitors ...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Creative Intelligence: a book review

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Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire Bruce Nussbaum. 2013. New York, NY: Harper Business. [IS...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Nebraska farming, 4H and technology updates

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As the daughter of a Nebraska farmer turned city slicker, I watched 4H from afar during my childhood in suburban Seattle. Several of my...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Improved Test Scores: Why and How

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Standard Learning Objective Quiz Results for Introductory Chemistry   Fall 2012 Results   2/19 students got 8/8 5/19 stu...
Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Transforming Matter: A History of Chemistry from Alchemy to the Buckyball (Johns Hopkins Introductory Studies in the History of Science)

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This is the book I pulled off of amazon.com last year and designated as my project for the year. This book and about ten other books of var...
Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Limiting Reactant/Reagent

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3 FeO(l) + 2 Al(l) → 3 Fe(l) + Al2O3(s) This is the best I could do for cutting and pasting a useful equation from my PowerPoint...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Illustrations to differentiate ionic and covalent bonding

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My students found these illustrations helpful in understanding the differences in bonding behavior of molecules vs ionic compounds. I incl...