Freerice - A morally virtuous Sporcle?
One of the slightly more odd postings from the Royal Society of Chemistry this week is a mention for Free Rice, an initiative sponsored by the World Food Programme. It has a very simple concept: you...
View ArticleYoungest ever dinosuar fossil doesn't prove the asteroid theory.
As covered at GCSE, there are several theories put forward to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. The most widely accepted theory is that an asteroid crashing into the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico...
View ArticlePredictive genomics - still early days
Watching the excellent Science on Science show on Discovery Science reminded me of a university essay that I wrote 7 years ago (PDF). The subject was predictive genomics: scanning a person's genome to...
View ArticleScandium - the vindication of Mendeleev's table
Nice piece from @GrrlScientist in the Guardian today (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/punctuated-equilibrium/2011/jul/15/1?CMP=twt_fd), on one of the lesser-known elements, Scandium. She links to the...
View ArticleCuriosity and immortality
I have just been looking on the website of a Discovery Science show beginning in August, called Curiosity. The show promises to 'ask and answers the most fundamental questions facing the world today...
View ArticleNot the breast tweet
If you have been following DrK_SCInews, you may have noticed that I have received some pretty vociferous feedback over the following tweet:‘Staring at breasts for just a few min/day can improve a man's...
View ArticleA2 Chemistry - making use of DNA
Based on what you have read in class and the blog entry on predictive genomics below (click for direct link), comment on the following statements and vote in a poll by clicking this link and entering...
View ArticleSmart Revising
Here's something that I have shared with my A-level students recently. I can't claim complete credit for it, since I first saw a student do this sort of thing really properly a couple of years back,...
View ArticleA2 Chemistry - making use of DNA
Based on what you have read in class and the blog entry on predictive genomics below (click for direct link), comment on the following statements.1) The DNA profiles of all UK citizens should be taken...
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