These are my links for November 24th through November 25th:
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Wired has a new article about my chemical hero Hervé This, „The Father of Molecular Gastronomy Whips Up a New Formula„.
Molecular gastronomy is more than just the chemistry of cooking, think new flavors, new cocktails, stuff done with liquid nitrogen, encapsulation with agarose or alginate.
Many cool things you, too, can try at home. Will you?
science chemistry, gastronomy, molecular
The [periodic spiral](http://www.periodicspiral.com/index.html) is a perfect example of infoporn and science visualization. Who would have know that after [Mendeleev’s](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev) glorious act of inventing the periodic system of the elements, or rather its design and structure — its visualization, someone, some hundred years later would try again. This time, though, it looks functional and pretty: the periodic spiral uses a hexagonal grid in which all elemnts are placed in a spiral starting from the center of that hexagon; the trick that still keeps the chemical grouping together is the generous use of white space: the groups are all aligned radially, blocks are still blocks. So, in a way, there is not much new in this kind of visualization, it is just no longer square but hexagonal. Still, the noble metals are set apart from the less noble ones, but as far as Ⅰ can tell there is no obvious advantage to do so…
On the mentioned site you can also check out a shockwave application that lets you explore some characteristics and data of the elements; there is also a downloadable (and not free) version for Macs and Windows.
science chemistry, periodic table
You are an organic chemist? You think you know it all? You like challenges? Check out this
for the answers to all your prayers: puzzles, quizzes, problems and „harte Nüsse“. Way to go, these challenges are great!
links challenge, chemistry, organic chemistry, puzzle, synthesis
Year: 2006
Version: 0.6.3
Author: Giuseppe Balacco
Platform: Mac OS
Category: Utility
Publisher: Mestrelab Research
Price: EUR 100
Ⅰ am in the process of doing a detailed review; this time written with a outputthis.org template… stay tuned for the review which will appear here shortly.
Tags: software, mac, nmr, chemistry, science, inmr
links, mac, science chemistry, inmr, nmr, software
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