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  1. @AlwaysDNS Always better to get a little than none. about 10 hours ago via Tweetbot for iOS from Amsterdam in reply to AlwaysDNS
  2. In commodity trading news, futures on brilliant ideas continue to be depressed, as prices on talk remain at all time lows. 6:00 AM Jun 1st via Twitter for Mac
  3. This week's email bankruptcy excuse is: All of Hawaii's pre-Internet BBS communities discovered Facebook at once. 5:55 AM Jun 1st via Twitter for Mac
  4. @boredzo That certainly doesn't help, it's true. 6:33 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac in reply to boredzo
  5. @boredzo Does it? It's hard to tell with all the needlessly scientistic language that plagues Wikipedia. 6:12 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac in reply to boredzo
  6. @alastairh Well, an electron antineutrino, but let's not split quanta. // @boredzo 5:33 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac in reply to alastairh
  7. @boredzo The missing part is where a neutron decays into a proton and an electron. They never actually seem to mention that point. 5:25 AM May 31st via Tweetbot for iOS from Amsterdam in reply to boredzo
  8. We explain the beta decay of Carbon 14 as losing an electron then somehow transmuting into Nitrogen. There seems to be a missing step there. 4:55 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac
  9. One thing I can say about modern chemistry textbooks that wasn't true when I was in school: they crash a lot. 4:36 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac
  10. Chapter 3, 130 pages in, we finally learn that "everything is made of matter." Misapplication of standardized testing has ruined learning. 3:04 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac
  11. It's a simple double-replacement reaction: we've swapped chemicals for politics. 3:02 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac
  12. @dkruythoff Pedagogy-wise, I'm not sure who I feel sorry for more, the students or the teachers. 3:01 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac in reply to dkruythoff
  13. In the '60s, chemistry was going to bring the future and save the world. In the '10s, careers in chemistry include "calibration technician." 2:59 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac
  14. @dkruythoff Well, it's definitely a boring trajectory. 2:57 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac in reply to dkruythoff
  15. The new book is 100 pages long so far, with no sign of getting into any actual chemistry. The old book is a little over 100 pages long. 2:55 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac
  16. Two chapters and almost 100 pages into a modern chemistry textbook, there's plenty to be tested on, but almost no chemistry. So bored. 2:53 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac
  17. Going through old and new chemistry texts has taught me as much about the trajectory of the last 50 years of pedagogy as chemistry. 2:48 AM May 31st via Twitter for Mac
  18. Happy birthday, @rentzsch. I hope the sun shines for you today. 12:00 AM May 31st via Tweetbot for iOS from Amsterdam