Chemistry Week Three

Your Green Chemistry Assignments

Blog Assignments for Week Three:

Ø  Discover your “Element of the Week” and post a brief description

Ø  Post your thoughts on Green Chemistry

Ø  Post at least one comment to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links:

http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/property/color.htm
WHAT IS IMPORTANT ABOUT THE COLOR OF MINERALS?

uvminerals.org/fms/luminescence
Luminescence and Fluorescence

http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~koppen/discharge/
Spectra of Gas Discharges

http://chemed.chem.purdue.edu/demos/main_pages/6.2.html
Colors of Elements in a Flame

Next class meets on June 4th!

Biology Week Three

Stem Cells and Genetic Evolution - Week Three

Here are your blog assignments for this week:

1.1    “99.4% of the most critical DNA sites are identical in human and chimp genes”
What do you make of this?

1.2    Read the articles “Sleep 'cleans' the brain of toxins”, “Moon Phases Tied to Sleep Cycles“, and “How much can an extra hour's sleep change you?”  Investigate the role of sleep and health.
Monitor your own sleep cycle over the coming week and use your blog to report on your findings.
Post your results in your blog

1.3    Respond to a classmate’s blog entry

2.    Use your blog to record your impressions of Human Genetic Evolution http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/LifeScience/PhysicalAnthropology/HumanGeneticEvolution/mainpage.htm

3. Check out the following links on Self-organization:

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/COMPNATS.HTML
Self-organization and complexity in the natural sciences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopoiesis
Autopoiesis

http://www.calresco.org/lucas/auto.htm
Autopoiesis and Coevolution

Next class meets on June 4th!

Physics Week Three

Synchronicity Assignments - Week 3

Blog assignments for this week:
* What evidence can you find for synchronicity
* Based on what you know, how would you explain connectivity?
* Post a response to a classmate's blog entry

Check out the following links on Energy, Matter and the Four Forces:

www.c2i2.com/~seven/paradox/Docs/Paradox.PPT
The Standard Model of Particle Physics - a Simplified Summary

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000068
E=mc2 - explain it in 60 seconds

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/fundamental-forces-of-nature.htm
FOUR FUNDAMENTAL FORCES OF NATURE

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/forces/funfor.html
Fundamental Forces

Next class meets on June 4th!

Some links from Week 2

Here are some of the links to material we covered in Week 2:

Physics:

Black hole and stellar winds form giant butterfly, shut down star formation in galaxy
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/04/18/black-hole-and-stellar-winds-form-giant-butterfly-shut-down-star-formation-galaxy

Envisioning a future quantum internet
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-envisioning-future-quantum-internet.html

Massive supernova visible millions of light years from Earth
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/13/massive-supernova-visible-millions-of-light-years-from-earth

Chemistry:

Environmental update: 5 ways to shrink your carbon footprint this year
https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/environmental-update-5-ways-to-shrink-your-carbon-footprint-this-year/

Why does bacon smell so good? It's all in the chemistry
http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-calcook-why-does-bacon-smell-so-good-its-all-in-the-chemistry-20140417-story.html

The truth about your online shopping carbon footprint
https://www.pressherald.com/2017/12/17/the-truth-about-your-online-shopping-carbon-footprint/

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint by Eating Better
https://www.terrapass.com/eat-your-way-to-a-smaller-carbon-footprint

Half off: Food and drink giants slash carbon emissions 50 per cent
https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3024465/half-off-food-and-drink-giants-slash-carbon-emissions-50-per-cent

Carbon footprint of Scottish households 'falls by 25%'
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-42555450

Biology:

How A Synesthetic Artist Sees Sounds And Turns Music Into Paintings
https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2018/05/09/586386659/how-a-synesthetic-artist-sees-sounds-and-turns-music-into-paintings

How Do We Listen When We're Unable to Hear?
https://www.npr.org/2015/06/05/411730683/how-do-we-listen-when-we-re-unable-to-hear

James Holman: the Blind Traveller
http://greatbritishnutters.blogspot.com/2008/04/james-holman-blind-traveller.html

Chemistry Week 2 - Periodic Tables

Assignments for Week 2 - Periodic Tables 

Blog assignments for this week:

* Post your comments on one of our class discussions

* Explore your own carbon footprint and report on your findings

* Post at least one comment to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links on Green Chemistry:

http://advancinggreenchemistry.org/

Advancing Green Chemistry

http://domin.dom.edu/faculty/jbfriesen/chem254lab/atom_economy.pdf

Avoiding Waste: Atom Economy.

www.greeningschools.org/docs/greenchemistryclockreaction.pdf

Sustainable Science: Green Chemistry in your Classroom

Biology Week 2 - Evo-Devo

Assignments for Week Two - Evo-Devo

1. Blog Assignments for this week:

• Post your thoughts on Evo-Devo

• Research synesthesia and report on your findings.

• Respond to at least one other student’s blog


2.  And check out the following links on Darwinism:

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/evolution/howdidwegethere.html
How Did We Get Here?
From the inheritance of acquired traits to natural selection to evo devo, evolutionary theory has itself evolved
By Steve Mirsky

http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/arn/pearcey/np_dcpolicy0500.htm
Why Darwinism Matters
Washington DC Policy Briefing
May 10, 2000
By Nancy R. Pearcey

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/origin.asp
Origin of Life Questions and Answers
“Answers in Genesis”

Physics Week 2 - Quantum Mechanics

Assignments for Week Two - Quantum Physics

1. Blog Assignments for Week 2:

 Your reflections on Uncertainty

 Your comments on Causality

 Is the Universe weird?

 Respond to at least one other student’s blog

 

2. Check out the following links on Synchronicity 

http://www.crystalinks.com/synchronicity.html
Synchronicities are meaningful coincidences.
Examples, definitions and some background to Jung

http://www.flowpower.com/What%20is%20Synchronicity.htm
What is Synchronicity?
More examples and discussion

http://www.science-et-magie.com/archives01/moisset/jma02syn.htm
Synchronicity and Multiple Universes

http://www.ayk.gov.tr/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/NIKOLOVA-Antoaneta-SYNCHRONICITY-AND-CAUSALITY-%E2%80%93-TWO-DIFFERENT-PHILOSOPHICAL-APPROACHES-TO-THE-WORLD.pdf
Synchronicity and Causality

Chemistry Week One

Hi there Chemists

Once you have your blog set up, post your introductory bio.

And here is the correct link for your "Quick Quiz" on Inorganic Chemistry
https://chemistry.boisestate.edu/richardbanks/inorganic/chemistry/chemistry.htm

Scroll down to the end of the page and you'll find the four problems.

And remember to post a comment to a classmte's blog.

Here are the links on Periodic Tables:

online:
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
interactive
http://periodic.lanl.gov/

spiral
http://chemlab.pc.maricopa.edu/periodic/spiraltable.html

memory
http://www.johnpratt.com/atomic/periodic.html

quiz
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Chem/Chem101lc/pertab2.html

game
http://www.funbrain.com/periodic/index.html

rejected
http://periodictable.com/pages/AAE_RejectedPT.html


And some of the links from Week One:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/may/01/ecstasy-ingredient-could-help-ease-ptsd-symptoms-study-finds

http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/essential-science-antidepressants-found-in-fish-brains/article/520456

https://inhabitat.com/are-you-eating-monsanto-weed-killer-for-breakfast/

Physics Week One

Hi Physicists!

Here are your Assignments for Week One:

    Post a short bio introducing yourself

    Post your thoughts on today's class - The Meaning of Time

    Respond to a classmate’s blog entry


And check out the following links on Quantum Mechanics:

https://web.phys.ksu.edu/vqm/software/online/info/summaryOfVqm.html
The simulations under “Programs” are excellent

https://you.uark.edu/ahobson/wp-content/uploads/sites/383/2017/02/Writing-for-Non-scientists.pdf
Writing for Non-scientists about Physics

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/The_Quantum_age_begins.html
A decent history


Here is the link to the article on black holes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43648152

Biology Week One

Hi there Biologists!

Here are your Week One Assignments:

Start your blog – try www.blogger.com
- and send your url to laurence_spears@yahoo.com

    Post a short bio introducing yourself

    Post your thoughts on our class discussion to your blog

    Respond to a classmate’s blog entry


And here are the links on "Evolution" for Week Two:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/
A PBS program from 2001 “Evolution – a journey into where we’re from…and where we’re going”

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
UC Berkeley’s website “Understanding Evolution”

Some of the links from Week One:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180419-the-words-that-change-the-colours-we-see

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/27/tetrachromatic-super-vision-women-100-million-colors_n_1631480.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/can-placebo-pills-help-cancer-survivors-manage-pain/



http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/human-intelligence-versus-whales-and-dolphins/

Welcome!

Welcome to your Western Sciences Class Blog

You'll find your class assignments are posted for each class here.

And I will be maintaining a class blog list for each class so that you can find your classmates' blogs easily.
So send me your blog address as soon as you have it set up

And enjoy your Sciences this Summer!