Smh of the week

Before I go off on this rant, let me just say I am an aunt of 15. I know kids. I raised them too.

Buckeyball issues recall

Any parent that buys a kid of a certain age that would ingest a buckeyball over its an intended use is a bad parent. This recall is brought to you by pure stupidity evolved from mankind and the legal system.

SMH. 

The Science of Tanning.

Okay, I'm going to be honest. I tan because of different reasons than most. I use a tanning bed that calculates the adsorption of my skin and calibrates the lighting in the bed to give me the right dosage. A lot of people I've had convos with have been skeptical but I finally did a video before my session to show how this works. Also, using this bed, I only have to tan 1-2 times a month. After my vitamin D deficiency working in my former lab, this is the best option for me.

Ever wondered how your spray tanners work? 

There is a compound interest post for that.

iMemory

Sometimes my facebook conversations aren't that bad.
A guy I knew from high school had this to say to me recently.

Dude, mushy stuff incoming, and I'm sober... and I don't care, so Deal. I freaking love you! I know I said some out of line shit back in high school, one time, but I didn't mean it. Doesn't matter, though. I don't want you to ever lose your flame. I know we're not the closest, but I'm proud to call you friend

Me: Lol. You said shit out of line in high school? who didnt? but I am curious* to know what you think you said that you remember.

Oh, Ms. Brandi. It wasn't anything too terrible, just HS boy mentality. It was as simple as somebody asking me if I "hit it" and me replying with "If I wanted to, I could have." We were both too young to be 'hitting' anything. I've always carried that around, though. I always felt that our friendship suffered because of my young, dumb mouth.

Me: Haha I never knew that And I guarantee you aren't the first or prob even the last to have said that.

Oh no, you did. You called me out on it. Haha

Me:  And no worries. I think all my friendships suffer every day bc of my mouth. Slowly accepting it tho. Haha lol. I guess I forgot

Glad to know I've carried around that long for nothing :)

Me:  It says something about you. Not me. Just means it was memorable. I bet you never did that to anyone else. We always hold memories of the lessons we learn. Unfortunately we hold strong feelings about the people in those lessons.

And I'm sure..... you're Brandi Badass
You're absolutely right.
I don't find that unfortunate in my scenario. You're an awesome person

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Why Niels Bohr Would Probably Fight James Watson Today

James Watson is making some serious headlines lately as if he had nothing better to do than keep up with the Kardashians.

Despite the massive publicity regarding the prestigious gold relic, the science community is unimpressed. 

In my honest opinion, Watson selling his Nobel Prize metal just confirmed to me that he didn't deserve it to begin with
— BranVanChemist (@BranVanChemist) December 10, 2014

Let's talk about race and science and shit getting real. 

When Hitler declared personal valuables such as gold a capital offense when exiting the country, Nobel Laureates took to innovative measures and risked their safety and well-being to preserve the priceless historical science antiquity. 

I have nothing more to add. You just can't disregard the past and those who took up arms to endure and persist against any and all Earthly forces to preserve the medal's importance.

You just don't ever fuck with Bohr. 

The other lesson here is you can dissolve a Noble Prize in acid, but it takes putting a price on it to severely damage it. The blemish is now historical. 

The basic elements of being human

This post is a sound-off concerning changes I've noticed taking place in my network of friends. Considering the need for social networking to sustain yourself, we live in an age of promiscuous friendship. I am still very traditional when it comes to casting a net to those in real life as opposed to those I refer to as soft alliances through my online marketplaces. 

Nonetheless, we are all still human, and if we are given the chance or opportunity to help others, we have nothing to lose by this. Our social capital is growing as opposed to getting used up. 

In a world built around the exchange of trifling benefits and confounding obligations, find those elements you refuse to let go when casting a wider and wider net.

1. Loyalty

We are what we are loyal to. To identify them is a process in which we need to sift and sort the core things we care about.
Too few loyalties breeds a shallow, thin and unsatisfying life. Too many loyalties motivate chaos and allow the mess to over-shadow the meaningful.

2. Character

"The world loves talent, but pays off in character"

3. Maturity

We may not get rid of all our hangups, but we should learn to control them to the point that you can function and not hurt others.

4. Commitment   You have to build meaning to your life and that happens through commitments. Lessons of success and failure are the stumbling blocks in which we, ourselves must transform into stepping stones.

5. Discernment  Understand the impact you have on others.

     6. Identity Nothing is safe nor free. Your identity is what you've committed to yourself and constant growth involves always doing better. The meaning comes from you and only you. The experience of humankind is perpetual but posterity isn't.

Creating Under the Confluence in OKC

Today is the 2nd annual Confluence Conference in Oklahoma City.

WTF is ConfluenceCon?

If the website doesn't give you a quick enough breakdown, see the most recent NewsOK article.

Best explained by the creator, David Christopher. He is the most interesting coffee date you will ever have in Oklahoma City.

                                   

WTF is a Digital Influencer – David Christopher from David Christopher

Was it total bullshit? No.

I actually learned new things that helped my personal online content as well as professionally related.

Learned about janux from Adam Croom and took the massive online open course Chemistry of Beer because his 2013 #confluencecon appearance let me know what OU was offering (for free!) How else do you think I got that pretty beer badge to the right of this screen? 

How to Become an Expert at Anything – Adam Croom from Confluence Conference

• Met Marissa Mohi for the first time and made a new shenanigan friend. I was already a reader of the Lost Ogle, but glad to meet someone in person behind the content. She is totally awesome AND A REAL-LIFE hero in a half-shell, with twitter power. I became a fan of hers last year and am excited she is serving up a twitter roast to lighten the mood and maybe unwind some of those tight-asses I saw last year.....#youarenotsafe

• Learned how to properly use pinterest thanks to Daniel Maloney, the CEO and co-founder of Tailwind (yes, pinterest's only analytics firm at the time, based/located in OKC). This is why pinterest no longer annoys me.

Follow Brandi 's board Chemists are the human element. on Pinterest.

• If Royce Young doesn't break down twitter to you facebook banger types and having you turning new tricks, then you can GTFO of OKC....

My 2014 Demand List

1. No bitchassness or resting bitch faces allowed in or near building.
2. I think number 1 can be fixed by those working the conference---to not only attain their attention to OPUBCO affiliated peeps. We are here to meet new people, not exclude them. 
3. Oh yes, I would be VERY interested to know the diversity and gender statistics about today's attendee's. 
4. I hope I meet people who are connected to science, science education or any sci-tech communication. Holla at me. I do science and love it.
5. I also expect others to at least be somewhat football fans. I felt like a freak last year checking college scores. Help me and I will help you.
6. I aim to find out if Social Jobworking can help me get a job. Tell me what I am doing wrong because I am social but that job search ain't working.

May The Odds Be in Your Favor Today, OKC Digerati

The undercover colors of science innovation.

Recently, I came across a very interesting article titled Amazing New Invention: A Nail Polish That Detects Date Rape Drugs

Now I tweeted this information and as always, the one tweet we do not expect to go viral, does. Haha, thanks twitter.

From scientists to sociologists, the questions mounted regarding probable and suitable research and development methods to the risk on relying on such products for women's safety.

This is what I have learned so far from my recent digging:

Undercover Colors is a company team accepted through Groundworks Lab's Underground Summer Program. What is Groundworks Lab?

What is the Underground Summer Program?

From their blog:

Two Mondays ago, we welcomed five new companies into our “Underground Summer” program. These companies were born within the North Carolina universities, including UNC, NCSU and UNCC. They will be working alongside our current groups and taking advantage of all of the Groundwork Labs mentoring and perks from now until August 16. The teams selected for Underground Summer are:

Contour Medical: Contour Medical is looking to change a medical device that has evolved little since its inception in the 1930s—the rib spreader. By creating a device that changes the way thoracic tissue is engaged, Contour Medical hopes to reduce the incidence of chronic post-operative pain in patients who require thoracic surgery. 

Undercover Colors: Undercover Colors is working to create the first technology ever that empowers women to discreetly protect themselves from drug-facilitated sexual assault. To do this, we are developing a clear coat nail polish that changes color when it comes in contact with date rape drugs in a spiked drink. Through this product, we hope to reduce the overall rate of drug-facilitated sexual assault by making potential perpetrators afraid to spike a woman’s drink because there’s now a risk that they can get caught. In effect, we want to shift the fear from the victims to the perpetrators. We are Undercover Colors.

Video Collaboratory: The Video Collaboratory is a private, web‑based application that allows small groups of users to upload their own videos or embed YouTube videos for purposes of collaboration. Users discuss by adding text, sketch, or multimedia comments directly at the point of interest within a video. Comments are linked to a specific time point or segment of the video, and timeline markers serve as navigational aids to examine the material. This approach removes the need for a separate text document or email chain to discuss the contents of a video and enhances the specificity and accuracy of the communication.

OmniThrive: OmniThrive builds casual digital games to improve patient education, empowerment, activation, and medication adherence.

501Carbon: 501Carbon is a not-for-profit carbon offset and renewable energy development firm that works with project development partners all over the US and internationally. Their carbon offsets currently come from international Gold Standard projects developed with their partner Umwelt-Projekt-Management headquartered in Munich and are planning for more domestic and international projects.

Posted on: July 3rd, 2014 by Carrie Brozowski

What kind of criteria did Undercover Colors need to be accepted?

 

So, Groundworks will be like a start-up accelerator for Undercover Colors?

Why is all this important?

For more money to be invested in science and innovation, we are going to run into problems where the "business hand doesn't talk to the science hand." First, I suspect Undercover Color's press release was issued in accordance with Innovative Public Relations  publicity and branding strategies. They believe Q3 Media Relation Efforts Drive Q1 Results which lines up nicely with the timing of the article. Second, this article was meant to brand themselves and introduce their mission statement to strengthen their grip in the marketplace.

This is all business people, not science. For both to be successful, we need funding and collaboration efforts such as these. Some will fail, and some will succeed, but I believe this goes to the greater good of investing more money into science. 

Is there a long term plan?

President Obama released the Strategy for American Innovation in September 2009 and updated it in February 2011 (http://www.whitehouse.gov/innovation/strategy).

The 2011 Strategy for American Innovation articulates the importance of innovation as a driver of U.S. economic growth and prosperity, the central importance of the private sector as the engine of innovation, and the critical role of government in supporting our innovation system.

It organizes the Administration's policy initiatives into three parts:

(1) Invest in the Building Blocks of American Innovation 

Spurring the innovations that will drive America's future economic growth and competitiveness requires critical investments in the basic foundations of the innovation process, including education, fundamental research, and both the digital and physical infrastructure on which our dynamic economy relies.

(2) Promote Market-Based Innovation

American businesses are the engine of innovation, and the Administration seeks to promote an environment that allows U.S. companies to drive future economic growth and continue to lead on the global stage. This requires that government establish and maintain the right framework conditions to support market-based innovation through the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit, effective intellectual property policy, and policies to promote innovation-based entrepreneurship as well as innovative, open, and competitive markets.

(3) Catalyze Breakthroughs for National Priorities

The 2011 strategy identifies several areas of national importance where public investments can catalyze advances, bring about key breakthroughs, and establish U.S. leadership faster than might be possible otherwise. The portfolio of national priority areas outlined in the 2011 strategy includes clean energy, biotechnology, nanotechnology, advanced manufacturing, educational and health information technologies, and space technologies.

White House Seeks Input on Innovation Strategies

A request for input was published on July 29,2014 and is available here.

Summary

The Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Economic Council request public comments to provide input into an upcoming update of the Strategy for American Innovation, which helps to guide the Administration’s efforts to promote lasting economic growth and competitiveness through policies that support transformative American innovation in products, processes, and services and spur new fundamental discoveries that in the long run lead to growing economic prosperity and rising living standards. These efforts include policies to promote critical components of the American innovation ecosystem, including scientific research and development (R&D), technical workforce, entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, advanced manufacturing, and others. The strategy also provides an important framework to channel these Federal investments in innovation capacity towards innovative activity for specific national priorities. The public input provided through this notice will inform the deliberations of the National Economic Council and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which are together responsible for publishing an updated Strategy for American Innovation.

Questions 

To gather valuable insight into promising opportunities to boost our innovation capacity in order to drive economic growth and competitiveness, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the National Economic Council (NEC) seek public comment on a wide range of innovation policy topics.Instructions. In formulating responses to any of the below questions, respondents should consider the following:The questions below are grouped into the following categories:

• Overarching Questions
• Innovation Trends
• Science, Technology, and R&D Priorities
• Skilled Workforce Development
• Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship
• Regional Innovation Ecosystems Show citation box
• Intellectual Property/Antitrust
• Novel Government Tools for Promoting Innovation
• National Priorities

Combatting Chemophobia Like A Boss

The missing panel talk from Combatting Chemophobia: Speaking science to distrust and engaging with empathy, online, and face-to-face.

The Panel

Chemists should serve the broader public, including better educating people in the nature and uses of chemistry.  This requires communicating with different segments of the public and engaging in different modes of communication.  Whether talking to media or to people online, speaking on behalf of professional organizations like ACS or speaking to our neighbors, our attempts to communicate impact people's understanding of chemistry and of the kind of people chemists are.

Participants in this panel discussion will describe their chemistry outreach experiences, engaging with groups whose opinions on chemistry range from curiosity and misunderstanding to concern and mistrust.  Panelists will describe what has made their own attempts to communicate successful and lessons learned from less successful attempts. We examine a diverse array of outreach efforts to build a repertoire of strategies for engaging with different communities.

Leigh Krietsch Boerner writes about the science of consumer products and works to address chemophobia from product marketing and rampant misinformation on the internet. 

Brandi VanAlphen examines impacts of industry supported messages on the public's understanding of chemistry and of chemists, and discusses how corporations can convey a better understanding of science while addressing the public's distrust of their motives.

Matthew Hartings uses food and cooking to engage large groups of non-scientists with chemistry in the classroom and in public lectures and will discuss how his outreach has been informed by the science of communicating science.

Chad Jones explores audiovisual outreach (podcasts and videos) as a way to make chemistry exciting and accurate.

Raychelle Burks is a blogger and activities coordinator using the intersection of chemistry and pop culture as an outreach tool.

Kevin Shanks is a forensic toxicologist and drug chemist whose activities include community and media outreach through social media and blogging about toxicology, drug laws, and other things forensic.

My Presentation 

Transcript Version

1. Hi my name is Brandi VanAlphen, but mostly I am known as BranVanChemist through twitter. Today, I am here to talk about chemophobia and its impacts on business and industry. What we hear about a business is what we hear, see or read on mass media. This is relevant because no matter the subject matter, the reality is we all work with or for these industries and we are the workforce, I am from Oklahoma which is the center for oil and gas industry. I sometimes refer to us as district 12 because we supply energy/fuel and lets face it, there isnt much else there.
2. Here is a headline most of you are familiar with- fracking and earthquakes. There is a lot of debate and discussion, but the reality is that the science experts are not in front of this. I am going to explain to you why business strategies need to change and how this relates to chemophobia. Sidenote: yes the whole quakenado thing is true. I have felt and been in all of them it seems like. By now, if the severe weather isn’t producing F5 damage, I am not concerned with it. 
3. In business, the company’s brand is their driving force to how they will perform. When digital content is created in regards to the chemical industry, I refer to this as chemical branding. It seems as if everyone on the internet is an expert about the chemicals a company uses except for the actual business itself. This is a problem. The knowledge of chemistry and scientific truth sometimes overlap public opinion, but is certainly not defined by it. We are the experts and without business cooperation, marketing collaboration and science communication, the online presence of chemophobia will continue to hurt, and even discredit our profession, if not the industry. This is crucial to Industrial Revolution 2.0 (the revised chemical version). 
4. Here we have two advertisements from two different eras in the chemical industry. Once upon a time, you could put babies and kids next to petroleum products because that made them family friendly and cute. Recently, I can only find BASF still supporting their pride as a chemical company in their marketing and advertising. Chemical businesses are no longer in the business of promoting their chemical brand. This has to change
5. Here is an example of consumer driven information and content hurting a business. There is this app called Think Dirty that will scan any barcode of your beauty and cosmetic products. Then it will list the ingredients of the product and rate it on a scale of 1-10 in terms of toxicity. Here is a screenshot of a product I use as a personal test to the app. First of all, L’oreal is a pretty solid company, that doesn't put out toxic products. Newsflash: this is why they are still in business. Secondly, what I found was completely wrong. They were listing cyclohexasiloxane as a toxic ingredient when in which they were doing something I call a classic google search gone wrong. Chemistry is its own language so someone researching a chemical is a loaded and dangerous in terms of science communication. classic google search gone wrong. Firstly, you have to be experience and knowledgeable about silicones because they are a large group of compounds. Depending on the formula and degree of polymerization, defines their characteristics. Secondly, this information is usually patent protected so we use general terms when it comes to ingredient labels. It takes chemists and the talent culture of that company to address the concerns or mismanagement of info. All of this leaves a digital footprint that is then available to the public who are heavily dependent on google search results. Is that how you want your business to be branded? How about your research in connection to? This also presents a nightmare to social media managers everywhere who do not have a scientific background. They are forced to research things they do not know or are trained to explain on a level that control consumer content. Can anyone guess what most do? Thats right- google search. 
6. So in order to change chemophobia in relation to business and the chemical industry-chemists (or their own talent culture) need to address consumer driven content, create their own and collaborate with similar brands across social media. Networking with others in their industry, professional organizations relating to chemicals and educating consumers through this engagement will help shape the future of the industry and our own professional brand as chemists. Business need take advantage of chemistry having the history of being able to be self-defined. 
7. My last job interview was at an R&D Fracking fluid company. My experience was much like that first headline I showed you. Before the interview I did some research on the company and found out that the vice president of this company created a biobased terpene mixture solvent-a citrus based, biodegradable, sustainable and renewable product. I did rigorous petroleum organic geochemistry research for two years and the solvents (xylene and toluene) were used in mass quantities, not to mention, long term exposure taking a toll on my health . I was excited to tour the plant and meet the research team. Why is it---we don’t see or know more chemical innovations like these? Let’s help re-brand the business, the chemist and the next chemical revolution.Thank you

Panel Presentation

Manhattan Project--Neutrons are the devil's details

J. Oppenheimer

"Physicists combine acute curiosity with an acute need for order .....

We'd like to understand what the devil matter is all about."

WGN's newest TV show The Manh(a)ttan Project debuted last night. The overall concept is amazing and well structured due to historical complexities surrounding atomic science and its impact. Man's relentless curiosity into matter left him with matters concerning himself along-side the posterity of his work. I guess the devil is in the details.

The race for atomic achievement will be man's tragic romance with science for all of eternity and I will tell you why. Just as fast as the scientist broke down matter, he quickly designed new forms in its place to study. The TV show's story-line begins in 1942. This timeline should provide some useful details in understanding the state of urgency that caused man and science to test the laws of both man and nature. 

1905

Albert Einstein, through his 17-page, Noble Prize-winning paper states light is consisted of particles, calling it the photoelectric effect. 

1911

Feb. Rutherford produces a paper entitled "On the Scattering of Alpha and Beta Particles by Matter and the Structure of the Atom" that only captivated one reader by the name of Niels Bohr

1919

Publication by Rutherford describing the details that follow. He first performs his famous high-speed alpha particle test confirming the existence of a nucleus using a small glass disc coated in zinc sulfide crystals. The disk or screen sparkles when in contact with alpha particles. Experimenting further with this radioactive source, he injects various gases including nitrogen which lights up the screen, indicating the gas had been disintegrated. Rutherford successfully smashed the nitrogen atom's nucleus, breaking it down into protons (Hydrogen atoms).

1923 

Erwin Shrodinger calculates a mathematical formula that can serve as the foundation for any such wave phenomenon. 

1925 

British physicist P.M.S. Blackett confirms and produces photographic evidence of Rutherford's atom smashing claims that took place in a cloud chamber. A whooping 23,000 times. 

1927

Werner Heisenberg states there is no way of keeping precise tabs on an electron or any atomic particle.

1932

California Institute of Technology's Dr. Carl Anderson discovers positive electrons, positrons that exist very briefly. In that brief period, when a positron encounters an electron, the two antithetical particles annihilate each other, releasing energy. 

1934*

1935

Japan's Hideki Yukawa, a theoretical physicist, estimates a linking particle would have to weigh 200 times as much as an electron to break the nuclear force. 

1936

Carl Anderson announces discovery  of a particle with a mass of 200 times that of an electron. It was named a mesotron, later shortened to meson.

1938

Otto Hahn & Fritz Strassmann, radio-chemists of Nazi, Germany bombard uranium with slow neutrons obtained from a radium-beryllium mixture. Target analysis concludes the element to be that of barium, an element whose atomic weight is half that of uranium. Perplexed, Hahn reports his findings in a letter to his former colleague of 30 years, Lise Meitner, who had fled Hitler's Third Reich five months earlier. While in exile in Sweden, Meitner receives Han's letter alongside her nephew, Otto Frisch, also a physicist who fled Germany at the time. When finished, Frisch hurries back to Copenhagen and manages to catch Niels Bohr on his way to America. This is where Frisch explains the process of nuclear fission.

Similar experiments were performed by Enrico Fermi, unbeknownst to himself in 1934*

1939

Jan. Bohr's news he received from Meitner and Frisch spreads rapidly through-out the foreign scientific community arriving on US soil. Even Fermi, himself takes up a post at Columbia University to avoid Italy of Benito Mussolini. Upon hearing the news, Fermi speculates the fission process and applies the term chain reaction to the phenomenon. 

Leo Szilard and Walter Zinn set up a simple experiment, where flashes of light would confirm neutrons were being emitted from fissioning uranium.

"We turned the switch and we saw the flashes. We watched them for a while and then we switched everything off.

That night there was little doubt in my mind the world was headed for grief."

This Ad Does Not Apply To Pre-Reduced Women

The Sunday Oklahoman paper usually has two purposes- the classifieds jobs section and the poorly pandered kid making what little money he can from OPUBCO.

Today, despite the four inch thick media bible of garbage, I research thru for tiny bits of information that keep me connected to my community. I found a pretty great local tribute one too, honoring women by a local male political influence. Too good to be true? 

Yeah the craft store coupon totally became my demon smut and all female ambitions lost in prayers. 

I mean really--- after all that-- what kind of black magic news fuckery is this for Oklahoman women? 

I had to take extra birth control this morning following that kick in the womb. Community news is suppose to enrich local diversity and success, not their pockets or business pew partners in moral crime. 

Am I the only one who is constantly offended by the backhanded feminine endorsement here?  

Suiting All Your Personnel Needs. A LinkedIn Story.

So true story--- I use to manage a personnel staffing agency and the blog post title "Suiting All Your Personnel Needs" use to be on my business card until I came across the innocent client or job seeker embarrassed they assumed I wanted to "suit all their personal needs."

Words matter. Business relations matter. These things do not exist in a vacuum untouched by human nature. I wrote this letter and sent it to LinkIn's Help Center. It turns out I cannot contact management or even send them mail via LinkIn's services without first upgrading. Are you kidding me?

Well. Let's get down to business then.

To the presiding CEO Jeff Weiner:

It seems a shocking and perverted kind of reasoning that motivates a letter writer to humiliate and scold his/her reader, when the purpose is to win co-operation.

Yesterday I received the “occasional email to help me get the most out of LinkedIn” which landed me in front of this screen.

I know I haven’t been placed in a personnel department job in the past 6 years but I do not think business letter mechanics have taken on indifference and ignorance in place of making a pleasurable first impression, even if the structure is now in digital form.

A delicate phase of human relations:

1. Any man or woman looking for employment is entitled to courteous attention. No person need apply for a job with his head hanging down.

2. Goodwill is a two way street if your purpose is to deliver value to your members regarding employment and professional networking. My identity and your insights in this relationship should be handled in such a manner that goodwill is created. Personnel relations at all levels should be valued from the point of view of public relations, the goodwill of one person may be as important as that of the other.

3. I understand your need to use devices such as analytics to gain emphasis, but perhaps you should be aware of what the data is emphasizing. Where is my human identity among these numbers? Nothing in your sales email correspondence and member insight tool made me feel like a person. I was a name, an email address and a just a record.

4. It once was a business necessity and a moral obligation held by any person who handles employment to uphold two things; to remove any resentment towards the company and offer encouragement.

Business correspondence takes place between humans. That will never be an exact science.

Good manners are not extinct to “dignity” of business. There is no more dignity in business than in any other ordinary form of human activity.

Perhaps your management team could afford to learn about spirit of goodwill and rendering an honest service.  I am not saying unfriendly business haven’t been  known to succeed, but then again their products were probably not people.

Brandi VanAlphen

***Have a great day and please unsubscribe me from any more of your negative insights while I am currently unemployed, seeking employment. I need positive professional development at this time. Also, please note I am 50% less likely to recommend your service to anyone, including my peers. Would you be interested in improving your odds by making adjustments to your business profile?

Common Chemistry makes a Curious Crowd.

Chemistry brings forth the most fundamental science, a subject dealing with intricate and most complex states of matter. All states of matter extend to the natural world including ourselves, making chemistry a science of personal interest. The extent of our knowledge depends on man's relationship and function towards its chaotic criteria.  Relationships in theory, method and practice negotiate how all scientific concerns will be addressed. 

Much like particles relying heavily on physics to exist, our natural world selves rely upon human connections to ensure our own existence. Our natural curiosity compels us to understand the world and the people in it.

Back in October 2013, I attended ConfluenceCon for its first year in Oklahoma. Confluence is basically a curation of actual people whose digital content and influence play a contributing role to the online community as well as offline.

It was my goal to add science communication to that list.

Meeting twitter people in the flesh is weird but it was worth meeting Marissa Mohi and David Cameron. Also, it is the first place I learned of OU Janux because Adam Croom presented a talk titled How To Become An Authority On Anything. 

This is how I learned about Janux and Croom's vision for digital learning that did not include the traditional student. The ironic thing is I heard about Janux's Chemistry of Beer through twitter and the hashtag #ChemBeerOU a few months later. 

It was a chemistry class unlike any other. Mostly because it was on a platform unlike any other. It was built for digital content, but content that can be pieced apart, edited, corrected, analyzed, discussed, shared as well as elaborated and expanded upon. I think the interaction was so intense and diverse among the 9,000 students enrolled--was traditional classmates transformed into commercial brew-masters, home-brewers, undergrad chemists, graduate degree chemists, PhD chemists and any intermediate learner with regard to beer artistry. Let me show you.

ORGANIC CHEM TIPS/TRICKS

REAL TALK FROM A PROTEIN CHEMIST ON PROTEINS

 

OPEN ACCESS GETS REAL TOO

HASHTAG LEARNING

I look forward to engaging online through chemistry content in the future. Hopefully science communication can be shared through online learning platforms. Honestly, if you give me any reliable hashtag, I will tweet it. My twitter habit along with endless content is what accidentally landed me in the OUdaily.