Chopped onions and a squeeze of lime and then itâs a yes for me.
The A's leaving Oakland is one of the more heartbreaking stories in baseball. As a kid in the late 80's, living in a state with no baseball team, I thought Jose Canseco was the coolest person (that opinion didn't age well). The child me would be so sad. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
On loving and losing the Oakland Aâs
finally, a higher ed opinion piece about âcollege as job prepâ written from a student perspective. worth reading. gift link.
Economic anxieties are generating crushing pre-professional pressure on campuses, destroying college life and damaging studentsâ mental health.
Queens deserves better. Itâs the most ethnically and linguistically diverse place in the world! And it has the Unisphere. And the Mets!
In chemistry we assume they donât know how to do it. Very few generally do, so one of the gen chem labs is an excel graphing lab.
Wow, thatâs a good angle.
Hey! Itâs our paper! Could have used more people named VĂĄzquezâŚ
A ChatGPT Assisted Reading Protocol for Undergraduate Research Students Engaging with Biophysics Literature https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.11.612473v1
A major challenge for undergraduate students engaged in research is reading scientific literature. T
In gen chem, they get a simplified version of this, but the more useful tool is using electron pair repulsion theory to predict chemical structure. Even though itâs not physically correct, it gives you most of the chemical intuition you need to predict what a molecule will do.
Especially in the quantum class, I try to really emphasize that the shapes are related to where you expect to find an electron most of the time, but that we canât actually measure orbitals or wave functions, but that they are a really useful tool for explaining how atoms might form a chemical bond.
I teach the orbital shapes in gen chem and quantum, but for me, I mostly think of them as spheres. I use classical simulations to study proteins, so the space filing van der waals modes tends to be most useful if Iâm trying to think about how individual atoms are talking to each other.