Good Summer reading

Roger Penrose: The Road to Reality.
Jennifer A. Elliot: An Introduction to Sustainable Development.
Victor Stenger: The New Atheim.
As I'm reading this books I will be reflecting on some of the ideas that I am getting around these readings. So far it has been very productive and interesting to say the least as I reflect on the nature of time. Kind of a coincidence that Scientific America is publishing an article in the latest issue (June 2010) about the idea that time is an illusion. In his article Craig Callender (Philosophy Professor at the University of California, San Diego) postulate a fairly static universe thus getting to the conclusion that time really doesn't exist being a mere illusion.

Useful Chemistry: Dangerous Data: Lessons from my Cheminfo Retrieval Class

Dangerous data can get into scientific papers easily do to pressure to publish added to the excess amount of data available from unreliable sources. Have a look at this post:
Useful Chemistry: Dangerous Data: Lessons from my Cheminfo Retrieval Class

Misconceptions in science

There are many misconceptions in science and some have words or names that are deeply inbeved in our language and vocabulary. One is "centrifugal force", to see what I mean have a look at this video:

Science Insight

Many teachers have been using blogs to share their ideas within and outside class topics for many years now. It is fascinating to see how some have been so good in using technologies such as flash to post animation of complex phenomena. Have a look at this post where intermolecular forces are explained in a simple way.
http://chemwithtran.blogspot.com/2007/12/intermolecular-forces-animation.html