Icon is always appropriate.
I always used to get so excited whenever transition metals and their flame colours were mentioned in chemistry in school. I still do - I used to think it was pretty cool and I love transition metal chemistry even if it's insanely fiddly at times. But for all that interest, we only did a flame colour experiment once when I was 14. After that we never really got to try out transition metals again even when I was helping out in science club.
Years on, I get to test flame colour as part of a lab. After determining the flame colour was green, I decided it couldn't hurt to test it again about ... 6 times? 8D
/GEEKY CHILD INSIDE
There's always something depressing about looking up the winners of the Nobel Prize each year and seeing a group of three men. Their research is incredibly important and very interesting but it always saddens me that there are so few women doing this level of research or winning such esteemed awards. Last year I was so happy to see a woman win the prize jointly with two men but even then she joins a surprisingly short list of female chemistry laureates - Marie Curie in 1911, her daughter, Irène Curie, in 1935 and and Dorothy Hodgkins in 1964.
It feels like there's so little to say about this other than that it's disappointing. Where I live, it feels like there isn't any genuine bias between genders and things will have improved even more by the time I've graduated and started to work. But maybe even if public opinion has changed, the domination of men in science hasn't.
At least the Ig Nobel prize cheered me up. If you don't know what they are, they're prizes awarded yearly for 'interesting' research to put some more fun into science. For example, some winners this year included someone who proved that swearing increases pain tolerance, a journal called "Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time", evidence that wearing socks over shoes increases friction (proven particularly when one test subject claimed he felt ridiculous then promptly fell over after taking the socks off) and a tiny helicopter designed to capture mucus from whale blowholes (?).
This year's Ig Nobel prize in chemistry went to a group who researched oil dispersion in deep water (roughly 800m) over ten years ago:
They were surprised to learn that ocean currents trapped mixtures of oil and bubbles in plumes about 300 metres above the seabed. But not as surprised as the people who shared the chemistry prize with them: BP, which this spring validated those results over a far larger scale and longer time in the Gulf of Mexico.
From Newscientist.com
LOL
Years on, I get to test flame colour as part of a lab. After determining the flame colour was green, I decided it couldn't hurt to test it again about ... 6 times? 8D
/GEEKY CHILD INSIDE
There's always something depressing about looking up the winners of the Nobel Prize each year and seeing a group of three men. Their research is incredibly important and very interesting but it always saddens me that there are so few women doing this level of research or winning such esteemed awards. Last year I was so happy to see a woman win the prize jointly with two men but even then she joins a surprisingly short list of female chemistry laureates - Marie Curie in 1911, her daughter, Irène Curie, in 1935 and and Dorothy Hodgkins in 1964.
It feels like there's so little to say about this other than that it's disappointing. Where I live, it feels like there isn't any genuine bias between genders and things will have improved even more by the time I've graduated and started to work. But maybe even if public opinion has changed, the domination of men in science hasn't.
At least the Ig Nobel prize cheered me up. If you don't know what they are, they're prizes awarded yearly for 'interesting' research to put some more fun into science. For example, some winners this year included someone who proved that swearing increases pain tolerance, a journal called "Fellatio by fruit bats prolongs copulation time", evidence that wearing socks over shoes increases friction (proven particularly when one test subject claimed he felt ridiculous then promptly fell over after taking the socks off) and a tiny helicopter designed to capture mucus from whale blowholes (?).
This year's Ig Nobel prize in chemistry went to a group who researched oil dispersion in deep water (roughly 800m) over ten years ago:
They were surprised to learn that ocean currents trapped mixtures of oil and bubbles in plumes about 300 metres above the seabed. But not as surprised as the people who shared the chemistry prize with them: BP, which this spring validated those results over a far larger scale and longer time in the Gulf of Mexico.
From Newscientist.com
LOL