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These are my links for November 24th through November 25th:

• CalDAV Calendar Sync : CalDAV – Mobile Help – This is amazing! How to synch all your google calendars with the iPhone!
  (tags: iphone gcal google calendar sync caldav ical howto mac )
• Top 50 Free Open Courseware Classes for Aspiring Scientists – Aspiring scientists can get a lot of help and knowledge from free online classes. Many universities offer open courseware classes that can help you learn the basics of a number of scientific fields. You can keep up to date on the latest developments, and learn to understand basic concepts. Whether you want the understanding to help you in your current job, or whether you are preparing to enter a degree program in the sciences, these 50 open courseware classes can help you get a solid handle on science.
  (tags: science chemistry education learning lectures opencourseware physics )
• Job&Money – für jungere Arbeitnehmer –
  (tags: buch finanzen geld job beratung )
• Nærfoto Bjørn Rørslett: Professional Nature Photographer –
  (tags: photography nikon reviews photo lens review reference camera )
• Nikon D3 Reviewed. Introduction –
  (tags: camera dslr nikon photography review d3 )

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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?

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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.

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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!

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