March 8th, 2008 by 
This week’s word presented by laura b. is chemistry. As a biochemist, the concept is near and dear to my heart. I don’t have any pictures (no white rats in my photo collection) from back then, though, so I’ll borrow. …
Posted in Top | 
No Comments »
March 8th, 2008 by
The use of creative items in a science library; Job and career resources in “Beyond the Chemistry Web”. If you’re interested in contributing to a future newsletter, please contact Meghan Lafferty (mlaffert@umn.edu) or Kevin Lindstrom …
Share it:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted in Top | No Comments »
March 8th, 2008 by
I used to debate my good friend the Math teacher about our approach to Math education. My argument would be “why so much Math for kids who must struggle so and who will never seek employment with such requirements”? …
Share it:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted in Top | No Comments »
March 8th, 2008 by
1. Notions of Set Theory. Artin introduces a concept that is referred to as the canonical factoring of a map (function). The basic idea is that any function can be factored into three functions and in a somewhat unique way: …
Share it:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted in Top | No Comments »
March 8th, 2008 by
They are going around from room to room completely changing furniture arrangements, demanding that more charts be added, putting in “centers” that we don’t use, and generally causing all the teachers in the school to freak out. …
Share it:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted in Top | No Comments »
March 8th, 2008 by
It always amazes me how many social conservatives there are on Star Trek message boards. I would have thought that the closed-minded gays-are-not-natural people wouldn’t be drawn to that show. But then, I suppose that given that Gene …
Share it:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted in Top | No Comments »
March 8th, 2008 by
Thinking about this in a larger context, Jeff G. of Protein Wisdom recalls a US 9th Circuit ruling in which the judge determined that parents “have no constitutional right, however, to prevent a public school from providing its students …
Share it:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted in Top | No Comments »
March 8th, 2008 by
Add to that the usual responsibilities at work, plus some new ones — installing new software in a new way on our supercomputers, helping the folks on my new project parallelize their code with OpenMP (which I’ve used once, …
Share it:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted in Top | No Comments »
March 8th, 2008 by
Being specific with your praise, such as telling your child you are proud of him for bringing his math grade up from a C to an A, accomplishes more than telling him that he is the smartest kid in the class or the world. …
Share it:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted in Top | No Comments »
March 8th, 2008 by
The moment I started to study the chemistry of Vidarabine it was love at first sight. Actually, I doubt love is right expression: it’s more a sort of Sturm und Drang, an explosion inside of me, an erupting ensemble of primeval, …
Share it:
These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Posted in Top | No Comments »
