New Chemistry Books
May 20, 2009
Common Chemistry
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Substance SearchWelcome to Common Chemistry™ from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a web resource that contains CAS Registry Numbers for approximately 7,800 chemicals of widespread general public interest. Common Chemistry is helpful to non-chemists who know either a name or CAS Registry Number® of a common chemical and want to pair both pieces of information. The CAS Registry Number is the universally recognized unique identifier of chemical substances and is often found on packaging and on articles of commerce. While not a comprehensive CAS Registry Number lookup service, Common Chemistry does provide a way to quickly and easily find names or CAS Registry Numbers for chemicals of general interest. CAS has collaborated with Wikipedia in developing this resource and encourages you to use the Wikipedia link (when available) or other sources of general information on chemistry, to learn more about these chemicals. |
May 18, 2009
ACS Redesigns Journal Web Pages
Have you had a chance to scope out the new web pages of ACS journals? They are packed with a lot of stuff, but one that I would like to point out is the link to SciFinder Scholar appearing at the article level of the journal. This link takes you to the sign-in page for SciFinder, where you can search Chemical Abstracts for related articles to the one you just found. You also are given options for different kinds of “pdf” versions of the paper. Check it out!
Go to ACS journals page and explore your favorite journal: http://pubs.acs.org/action/showPublications?display=journals
May 11, 2009
RSC Acquires ChemSpider
I just got the announcement from the Royal Society of Chemistry on their acquisition of ChemSpider, a free online resouce based on structure searching, which was blogged earlier on DrexelChemistry. For more information on the acquisition go to: RSC acquires ChemSpider
For information on ChemSpider go to: http://www.chemspider.com/
I just hope that this resouce STAYS free!
May 1, 2009
Science? Art? Dance? Gosh!
The Science Dance Match-Up Challenge
John Bohannon
| Thank you for taking part in the following experiment. You are about to see four dances. Each of them is based on a different scientific research article. Your task is to match the dances with the science that inspired them. |  |
We use science and art for very different things. Science helps us to simplify the universe by deciphering its physical laws and history. In a certain sense, we use art to do the opposite. Artists take the simple, everyday material of our lives and turn it into unique, complex experiences. The dances you are about to see are an extreme merging of both.
They are the final output of the 2009 AAAS/Science Dance Your Ph.D. Contest. They started with the purest form of scientific communication-research papers that supposedly leave little room for more than one interpretation-and transformed them into modern dance, a medium in which individual interpretation is the essence.
This is Science: Jenn Liang Chaboud from Matthew Chaboud on Vimeo.
If not a single person correctly guesses what science these dances were based upon, it certainly won’t make them artistic failures. The goal of the choreographers was to make art, not study guides. Nonetheless, this is an experiment worth doing. When art jumps out of science, can we retrace its path?
Check out the rest….http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5925/332b
