Chemistry As Impressionism
a: Chemistry ~
b: an impressionistic painting
What: "My favorite way to explain this to my students invokes a metaphor: chemistry is like an impressionistic painting. If we view it from too close, all we see is bewildering detail in myriad dabs of paint. If we look from too far away, all we see is a shimmering blur. At the right distance, wondrous and lovely things appear."
Writer: Dudley Herschbach
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Date: Mar 11 2012 1:01 PM
a: Chemistry ~
b: the stuff in this link
What: A prezi slide show with all sort of chemistry analogies.....
Writer: Seungeon Lee
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Date: Jul 22 2013 7:52 PM
a: Chemistry ~
b: syntax for atoms and molecules
Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Feb 3 2018 3:42 PM
a: Chemistry ~
b: syntax for atoms and molecules
Writer: Not Stated
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Date: Feb 3 2018 3:42 PM
The Whole And The Parts.....
a: Biochemistry ~
b: looking at God
What: "The life sciences are all interrelated with the environment. Studying biochemistry is like looking at God," said Riiska. " It's the most amazing thing how it all works together, it is so interconnected. The smaller you see a living organism in the microscope, the more you understand the big picture-how everything living is interdependent."
Writer: Catherine Riiska
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Jul 17 2013 6:33 PM
Meditation On The Earth
a: Geochemistry ~
b: meditation on earth chemistry
What: "Reading the Essays on Geochemistry is like entering into a prolonged meditation on the chemical interactions of the Earth's crust, including the relation of the biosphere's living matter to inert matter. In fact, the perspective Vernadsky provides is often startlingly fresh. Even those not initiated into the intricacies of chemistry will find many points of reflection, not the least of them being the consideration of life as living matter."
Writer: Jose Arguelles, Ph.D.
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Date: Aug 26 2013 5:55 PM
When Looking For Oil
a: Geochemistry ~
b: geophysics
What: "For the Westcoast poster who asked me about the high butane values equaling light oil....geochemistry is like geophysics, a useful tool but I don't buy in that you can tell what type of oil is in the reservoir until you put a drill bit into it."
Writer: kerogen
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Date: Aug 26 2013 5:57 PM
a: chemistry of life ~
b: poetry
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'The chemistry of life is like poetry,' says Phillip Manning, a palaeontologist at the University of Manchester in the UK. 'By the time it's been buried for a few million years that poetry is still there, it's just hard to read.' To continue his analogy, all that remains of the biochemical poetry that determines colour are a few fragmented sentences and jumbled letters. Trying to rebuild these into something that makes sense is by no means easy.
Writer: Phillip Manning
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Date: Apr 16 2017 7:40 PM
