Your Chemistry Take-home Midterm Exam - Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars, and Loafing too

For your Chemistry Midterm Exam, consider three recent articles on Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars

Will hydrogen fuel cells prove to be the way forward in car designs?

Investigate Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars and report on your findings.

Your paper should be 500 - 1000 words.

And here are the links to the articles:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/john-o%E2%80%99groats-land%E2%80%99s-end-hydrogen-fuel-cell-car

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/13/hydrogen-fueled-cars-could-become-a-common-sight-on-the-roads-of-the-future.html

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/it-takes-two-hyundai-and-audi-pair-up-for-hydrogen-project

Your Midterm Exam also requires "Loafing around without feeling guilty"
 Use you blog to explore your loafing experiences

And have a Happy Holiday!

Your Physics Take-home Midterm Exam

Here is your Take-Home Midterm Exam Paper – due Monday, July 9th

Choose one aspect of Physics we have discussed in class.

Prepare a brief analysis based on both Eastern and Western world-views


Your maximum word count:  500

(Please Note - Grade point penalties for exceeding word count)

Your Midterm Exam also requires "Loafing around without feeling guilty"
 Use you blog to explore your loafing experiences

And have a Happy Holiday!

Your Biology Take-home Midterm Exam - Biomimicry and Loafing!

Biomimicry is the “conscious emulation of life’s genius,” 
Janine Benyus

Investigate “biomimicry” and report on your findings.
Can you find examples of biomimicry at each of the three levels Janine Benyon describes?

Your paper should be 1000 - 1500 words.

And here is the link to "A Biomimicry Primer" by Janine Benyon

Your Midterm Exam also requires "Loafing around without feeling guilty"
 Use you blog to explore your loafing experiences

And have a Happy Holiday!

Chemistry - 25 June - A Question of Balance and Chemical Bonding

Blog Assignments for this week:
 

Ø  Post your thoughts on the diet suggestions in pH Balance: Acids &Alkalis & Anti-Oxidants

Ø  Post your thoughts on one of our discussions in class

Ø  Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

And check out the following links:

 

Alkaline products promisehealth benefits with little proof to support such claims

The Business of Ingredients, Part I

10 Common Beauty Products You Shouldn’t BePutting On Your Skin

Physics - 25 June - Classical Physics

Blog assignments for this week:

• Newton’s Three Laws and me
• Our “Energy Efficient” Culture
• Descartes has a lot to answer for!
• Post a response to a classmate’s blog

And check out the following links on Sacred Geometry and Fibonacci

http://www.geometrycode.com/sacred-geometry/

Sacred Geometry Home Page by Bruce Rawles

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emat6680/parveen/fib_nature.htm

Fibonacci in Nature

Biology - 25 June - Cell Biology: HIV and AIDS

Class next meets on July 9th - enjoy your 4th of July Holiday!

Blog assignments for this week:

• How do you feel about western approaches to HIV/AIDS?
• What are your thoughts on the issues around the PrEP treatment?
• Can TCM strengthen our immune systems?
• Post a comment to a classmate's blog entry

And check out the following links:

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/index.html
Introduction to Cell and Virus Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/animalcell.html
Animal Cell Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/bacteriacell.html
Bacteria Cell Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/plantcell.html
Plant Cell Structure

http://microscopy.fsu.edu/cells/virus.html
Virus Structure

http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/tour/cell/cell.htm
The Virtual Cell – Cell Biology

Chemistry - 18 June - Electrochemistry and Alchemy

1.      Blog Assignments for Electrochemistry and Alchemy:

Ø Alchemy – science, magic, art – or all three?

Ø Post a comment on this evening’s discussions

Ø Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

 

2.      Check out the following links:

 
State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals
http://www.unep.org/hazardoussubstances/UNEPsWork/StateoftheScience/tabid/105913/Default.aspx

The Human Touch of Chemistry

http://humantouchofchemistry.com/
 
Common Chemicals found in the Home
http://www.ivy-rose.co.uk/Chemistry/GCSE/Common-Chemicals-in-the-Home_Molecular-Formulae.php

Physics - 18 June - Vibrations

1. Blog Assignments required this week:
 Are all vibrations “good”?
 Resonance in my world
 Connections I can make between Energy and Qi?
 Respond to each others blogs

And  here's another link on the Katrin Experiment in Karlsruhe

Conduct one of these science experiments and write up your conclusions in your blog

www.lsop.colostate.edu/category/shopcasts/buildityourself/

Some cool science experiments you can do with stuff you probably already have around the house...

And check out the following links on Classical Physics for next week:

http://www.mcasco.com/p1outln.html?CFID=3769081&CFTOKEN=69535836 

Physics 1 Online Course

http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/billiards/billiards.html?CFID

=3769081&CFTOKEN=69535836 

Billiards and Physics

http://monet.physik.unibas.ch/~elmer/pendulum/index.html?CFID

=3769081&CFTOKEN=69535836 

The Pendulum Lab

Biology - 18 June - Cell Biology and Cancer

Blog assignments for this week:

• How sophisticated is our understanding of cancer?
• How does a TCM approach to cancer differ?
• Post a comment to a classmate's blog entry

And here's an updated link to the article in class today -  Is America better at treating cancer than Europe?

Check out the following links for next week:

http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/textbook/cancer/cancer_13.html
Rediscovering Biology

http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/biology/textbook/hiv/hiv_1.html
HIV and AIDS

http://www.ericdigests.org/2004-1/cells.htm
Teaching About the Life and Health of Cells

Chemistry - 11 June - Avogadro and Molar Mass

Here are your Assignments for Avogadro and Molar Mass

• Test your understanding of hypotheses – try Avogadro's Hypothesis and report back on your findings
• What exactly is a mole? - try "What Is a Mole, Checking Out the Mole"

Plus post your thoughts on the articles on the contamination of mussles. 

And here are a couple of links on Alchemy:

http://www.goldenelixir.com/jindan/jindan_intro.html
A Short Introduction to Chinese Alchemy

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html
The Alchemy Web Site

Physics - 11 June - Chaos Theory

Your Assignments for Chaos Theory

Blog assignments for this week:

• “Ordered chaos” – does this sound familiar?
• Fractals as patterns of complex systems
• Consciousness out of chaos?
• Respond to each other’s blogs

And check out the following links on Vibrations:
http://www.gmi.edu/~drussell/Demos.html
Acoustics and Vibration Animations
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/U11L4b.html
Resonance and Standing Waves
http://www.plus2physics.com/vibrations/study_material.asp?chapter=2
Damped vibrations
http://exhibits.pacsci.org/music/MusicPhysics.html
Music Physics

Biology - 11 June - The Complexity and Nature of Life

Here are your Assignments for "The Complexity and Nature of Life"

Your Blog Assignments:

• How would you distinguish between living and non-living systems
• As an optional assignment, feel free to post your thoughts on the article "Why Grandmothers May Hold the Key to Human Evolution"
• And please keep up the blog dialog, and post a comment to a classmate's blog

Check out the following links:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/cell/
Plant Cell Anatomy

http://www.life.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/plantbio/cell/cell.cgi
Virtual Cell

http://mandalazone.com/wordpress/thinking-through-the-mind-and-the-mandala/
Thinking Through: The Mind and the Mandala 

Chemistry - 4 June - The Chemistry of Color and Nutrition

Chemistry of Color and Nutrition blog assignments:

• Explore the colors of foods in your own kitchen – report on your findings.
• Post a comment on one of our class discussions this afternoon
• Post a comment to a classmate’s blog

Check out the following links:

http://digipac.ca/chemical/molemass/avogadro.htm
 Avogadro's Hypothesis

http://digitalfire.com/4sight/education/what_is_a_mole_checking_out_the_mole_111.html
What is a Mole, Checking Out the Mole

http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Humor/Dihydogen-monoxide.html
Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide

Physics - 4 June - Energy, Matter and Force

Blog Assignments for "Energy Matter and Force":

 How has e=mc2 affected you?

 How would you compare the four “forces”?

 What is the function of gravity?

 Keep up the blog dialogue!


And check out the following links on Chaos Theory

http://www.isss.org/quotelvb.htm
Ludwig von Bertalanffy

http://www.ddewey.net/mandelbrot/
Introduction to the Mandelbrot Set
A guide for people with little math experience.

http://mathforum.org/alejandre/workshops/fractal/fractal3.html
What is a fractal?

http://www.littlesputnik.net/trpearce/orderchaos.htm
Order Out of Chaos -- Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers

Biology - 4 June - The Pattern of Life

Blog Assignments for "The Pattern of Life":

o Post your thoughts on "Our common ancestor with chimps may be from Europe, not Africa"

o Comment on the “Gaia Theory” – is this now a commonly accepted theory?

o Respond to one of your classmate’s blog entries


And check out the following links:

http://www.resurgence.org/resurgence/articles/capra.htm
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM OUR SECOND BRAIN
FRITJOF CAPRA

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/playground/life.html
The Game of Life

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-36174
Philosophy of biology
> The nature of biological systems
> Viewpoints on the nature of life