JCE Online Rebooted
ChemEd X Admin | Thu, 03/08/2012 - 13:31
JCE Online is rebooting as Chemical Education Xchange!
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JCE ChemEd Xchange provides a place for sharing information and opinions. Currently, articles, blogs and reading lists from ChemEd X contributors are listed below. We plan to include other items that the community wishes to share through their contributions to ChemEd X.
Rebooting JCE Online
ChemEd X Admin | Wed, 03/07/2012 - 12:32
Rebooting JCE Online into a new, interactive web CMS platform is a large undertaking. JCE Online has had a fairly long history, several contributors, and contains a lot of content. The content is typically static HTML and was created using numerous tools and methods. Some content is available only to subscribers.
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
Hal Harris | Wed, 02/01/2012 - 00:00
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins attempts in this book to address some of the questions that might arise in the minds of children about topics with which science deals. It was written for kids of unspecified age; I would guess that middle school would be a reasonable estimate.
Letters to a Young Chemist
Hal Harris | Sun, 01/01/2012 - 00:00
Imagine yourself to be an undergraduate science major, with some interest in the possibility of a career in chemistry. Wouldn't it be interesting to have lunch with more than a dozen (actually seventeen) accomplished academic researchers, who could tell you about some of the cool things that their work has discovered, and what they are currently excited about.
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Hal Harris | Thu, 12/01/2011 - 00:00
I enjoyed so much Dava Sobel's previous books, "Longitude" and "Galileo's Daughter" (both of which were Hal's Picks), that I was eager to read her latest, which was judged "best science book" for Fall, 2011 by Publisher's Weekly.
The Joy of Teaching and Writing Conceptual Physics
Hal Harris | Tue, 11/01/2011 - 01:00
Paul Hewitt may be the best-known physics teacher in the US. Not only has he written outstanding books for the teaching of physics and physical science, he is also the author of the very popular monthly "Figuring Physics" column of The Physics Teacher.
Hacked!
Hal Harris | Sun, 10/02/2011 - 02:00
Computer security became a personal issue for Atlantic Monthly national correspondent James Fallows when his wife Deb's g-mail account was hacked. Bogus e-mails appealing for emergency money were sent to everyone on her contacts list, six years of mail, photographs, and records were deleted, and Mrs. Fallows was locked out of her own account.
Worm: The First Digital World War
Hal Harris | Sat, 10/01/2011 - 01:00
Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down , knows how to write a nonfiction thriller. The Worm sounds like it ought to be science fiction, but the title refers to the Conficker worm, the most diabolical and potentially damaging computer malware ever devised.
Leveling the Field: What I learned from For-Profit Education
Hal Harris | Fri, 09/02/2011 - 02:00
One would expect a long-time educator like me to know more about the largest university in the United States (enrollment of 530,000) and I have wondered what the University of Phoenix is really like. I see their large office buildings with prominent signs everywhere but, since they do not offer programs in science, their activities are essentially orthogonal to what I do.
The Great Martian Catastrophe and How Kepler Fixed It
Hal Harris | Thu, 09/01/2011 - 01:00
Owen Gingerich is the author of one of my favorite books, "The Book Nobody Read", which was my Pick for October 2004 (could it have been that long ago?), which combines astronomy, history research, and bibliophilia.