Chopped onions and a squeeze of lime and then it’s a yes for me.

Queens deserves better. It’s the most ethnically and linguistically diverse place in the world! And it has the Unisphere. And the Mets!

In chemistry we assume they don’t know how to do it. Very few generally do, so one of the gen chem labs is an excel graphing lab.

Wow, that’s a good angle.

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 it’s 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 can’t 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 I’m trying to think about how individual atoms are talking to each other.

I assume the next thing you say is "yes, I have seen Breaking Bad, no I don't know how to make meth."

Not sure if someone made the is joke yet, but did they complain they were not “Paid in Full”

I feel like my ideas end up growing and multiplying in head until they become all consuming.