How does salt melt snails?
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Why does salt "melt" snails and slugs? (And how do people manage to prepare escargot without ending up with a big pot of goo?)
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 5:55 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.
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Basic concepts:
Happy Mole Day! (What's a mole?)
This is National Chemistry Week. It's always chosen to coincide with whichever calendar week includes October 23 (or 10/23), since October 23 is "Mole Day". "Huh? Why would chemists celebrate a furry critter that burrows underground?" Not that mole. The...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 11:52 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Basic concepts: scientific anti-norms (part 2).
How do scientists think they ought to behave? How do they actually behave?
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:07 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Basic concepts: scientific anti-norms.
The tribe of science shares a set of values. The larger society's values sometimes pull the other direction.
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:39 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Basic concepts: the norms of science.
Since much of what I write about the responsible conduct of research takes them for granted, it's time that I wrote a basic concepts post explaining the norms of science famously described by sociologist Robert K. Merton in 1942. [1]...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:05 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Audience participation: help me flag good posts for non-scientists trying to understand science.
A regular reader of the blog emailed me the following: Have you ever considered setting up a section for laymen in your blog where posts related to the philosophy of science, how research is conducted, how scientists think etc. are...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 10:36 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Book review: The Canon.
The average American's lack of scientific literacy has become a common complaint, not only among scientists but also among those who see our economic prospects as a nation linked to our level of scientific know-how. Yet somehow, science has...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 6:57 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Basic concepts: refrigeration.
My last post for the basic concepts series involved phases of matter and transformations from one phase to another. This post will look at how a phase change can be put to practical use in a common household appliance --...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 1:31 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Basic concepts: phase changes.
Some months ago I made a (seemingly idle) threat to follow up my basic concepts posts on polar and non-polar molecules and intermolecular forces with a post on phase changes. Finally it's here! Since the discussion here will be leaning...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 12:49 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
2007 Science Spring Showdown: Kuhn vs. Theory coverage!
PRESS CENTER | UPDATED BRACKET Janet: Welcome to team coverage of the much anticipated Chair Bracket match between Kuhn and Theory! Ben: Yes, I think we can agree on our assumptions that this will be quite a battle. Janet: I...
Posted by Janet D. Stemwedel at 4:02 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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