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Chemistry & Biochemistry:
Fun experiments for Thanksgiving
Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry
If you're not cooking today, why not experiment? Here's something fun you can do with Mentos and Diet Coke - and for those of you who think these experiments are...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Cooking on Thanksgiving?
Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry
Our household is very excited about Thanksgiving. That's because this Thanksgiving, my husband is cooking a turkey in an egg. A big green egg. Check back later today, about 5:30...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments •
It's an RNA world after all
Category: Science education
Before mammals, before dinosaurs, before bacteria, or plants, there was something else; a protocell containing RNA. The Exploring Origins Project has excellent animations of protocells, a timeline of life's evolution,...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:19 PM • 4 Comments •
Want to learn about genetics? Play with molecular modeling? I need volunteers
Category: molecular structures
Want to learn more about Parkinson's disease? See why a single nucleotide mutation messes up the function of a protein? I have a short activity that uses Cn3D (a molecular...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 9:22 AM • 7 Comments •
It's elemental: Chemistry movies on YouTube
Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry
The Periodic Table of Videos from the University of Nottingham has 118 short YouTube clips about the elements. Wired Campus recommended the Sodium clip (below). I liked it, too. It's...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 6:00 PM • 4 Comments •
The search for August
Category: molecular structures
A search for August leads to unexpected results.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:20 PM • 2 Comments •
A molecule for May
Category: PubChem
APRIL was so much fun, that I thought I should find a molecule for May. I searched both the Gene database, the structure database, everywhere, without any luck. Finally, I...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 8:42 AM • 6 Comments •
Comparing mutant and wild type structures
Category: molecular structures
How to compare mutant and normal protein structures.
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:21 PM • 2 Comments •
Open Access and using molecular structures in education
Category: molecular structures
I love using molecular structures as teaching tools. They're beautiful, they're easy to obtain, and working with them is fun. But working with molecular structures as an educators can present...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:01 PM • 11 Comments •
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