Monday, August 27, 2018

STEM Outreach with BASF: Exploring Chemistry - Clean Water and pH

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It has been a busy summer, but I finally got back into a classroom to have fun doing science with middle schoolers.  It has only been a few ...
Monday, July 30, 2018

A Summer of Planets: Jupiter, Saturn and Mars

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I really could call July 2018 the summer of clouds.  Here in Cary, NC this July has been full of humidity, storms, and clouds.   Yet, when t...
Monday, July 2, 2018

Spotlight on "Seeds of Science": How a mind was changed on GMOs

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Have you ever wondered why it is so hard to change someone's mind even when you give facts that should make the decision easy?  Maybe...
Monday, June 11, 2018

The Beauty of the Moon: The Tycho Crater

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This post is purely to share the beauty that is around us.  I can spend hours just looking at the moon in a scope and it never gets old.  Th...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Getting a picture of Jupiter: Firecapture, Autostakkert!, and Registax

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I have put a picture of Jupiter up before in a previous entry, but this time I wanted to go over the software I use to get a final picture. ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Dinoflagellates in the Reef Tank - What, Why, and How?

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Dino what?  Yeah that is what I said until I started looking more into the what, why and how.   I remember going to the beach with my parent...
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Monday, April 23, 2018

Chemistry Fun - How does the antacid Gaviscon work?

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Have you ever had heartburn and gone to the medicine cabinet to grab some relief.   Then have you ever stopped and wondered how that medicin...