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Mar 18, 2010
Periodic Table of Science Bloggers
UPDATE: I’ve made a start adding other science types to the Periodic Table of David Bradley. If you want on, let me have me your blog link, social media site or whatever, and tell me which element you are (preference given to those where blog’s or your initials fit an element). Gold squares are mine, bronze are assigned to other bloggers, all other elements are up for grabs, let’s see if we can fill the …
Real chemistry at the periodic table party
UPDATE: Please let us know – which element are you?
Teaching chemistry has changed so much since my day. This classic Youtube clip highlights the way the elements might interact at a periodic table party. Carbon is popular with the hydrogens, the noble gases are the emo wallflowers, but it’s the fight that breaks out between potassium water that even had my teenage son laughing. Check out the chemistry, or lack thereof, between hydrogen and neon……
Mar 17, 2010
What causes the seasons?
Outside the tropics we experience four seasons – Spring, Summer, Autumn, or Fall, and Winter. These occur because the Earth’s axis about which it rotates once a day is tilted at an angle relative to the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Because the axis always points towards the north star throughout the year, the seasons are cyclical. In the northern hemisphere, when the North Pole points towards the sun, the sun’s light is more directly …
Physical, Chemical, Spectroscopic
In conjunction with Wiley's SpectroscopyNOW, David Bradley brings you the latest science news in the fields of MRI, NMR, IR, Raman and UV spectroscopy as well as chemical informatics, crystallography and other X-ray techniques. Physical science news is in conjunction with Intute where you can read more recent scientific discoveries in astronomy, chemistry, geology, materials science, physics. For straight chemistry news check out my twice-monthly Alchemist newsfeed on ChemWeb as well as Reactive Reports both covering all areas of chemical science, including organic, inorganic, physical, pharma, nano, environmental and biotech. New stories are linked from the main Sciencebase blog as soon as they're available on client sites.
David Bradley Science Writer
Sciencebase.com is the website of freelance science writer David Bradley BSc CChem MRSC. David has covered a wide range of subjects for many popular magazines, technical publications, websites, and elsewhere, including American Scientist, BioMedNet, ChemWeb, Nature, New Scientist, Popular Science, Proc Natl Acad Sci, Science, and SpectroscopyNOW. He is a member of the US National Association of Science Writers, the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry and the Association of British Science Writers. You can read his biography here or contact him by email, call him on +44 (0)1954 202218
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