Unfortunately I don't know enough about polymers to write hard questions to stump AI

I have to admit, I just ran my polymer problem set for Orgo II through Gemini and, man, did it ever do a great job. I wish my students were so thorough. It included molecular weight and polydispersity calcs from a data table and assessment of properties. 1/2

We don't make a distinction between BA and BS at Purdue but we have the ACS accredited and non-ACS accredited tracks. As an undergrad at UNI that was the difference between BS and BA. The differences were things like Calc 3 and calc-based physics. Premeds usually went BA and took Anat&Phys

Happened to me once. Ultimately the Hg evaporated

Waiter! There is too much pepper on the prapikash

My mom's birthday is June 25, so exactly 6 months from Christmas

We had a stretch in our dept where we had what we called "the mad pee-er." Someone was peeing all over the floor in the bathrooms

And all i can think is, it would be even cooler if it were call xyzab instead

For my wife's thyroid, they didn't use the Tc for kinetics, just for imaging, so they only needed enough. For the uptake kinetics, they used 131 iodine

My wife had thyroid imaging. They gave her a shot of sodium pertechnitate. They did the imaging using a 2D array detector that they placed over her neck. I sat and watch the decays hit the screen. It was a lot of fun. For me. She had to lay still for like 45 mins

Hey, make the decomposition products N2 and water....

Oh for sure, this idea of green explosives has been around for a while. Klopotke has been pushing that big time. It makes sense because military base firing ranges have built up tons of lead.

Always a big fan of the dendrobates, phylobates and, of course, the epipitibates

Did anyone else see the NASA rep talking about why we are going to the moon, and her answer was H2O. And she wrote it on the board. With a superscrpt 2.

When my wife got into vet school, it blew my mind to learn that 90% of the accepted class graduates. So yeah, they are intent on getting students through medical school. They can say people don't need organic, will they say they don't need med school 1&2?

Organic professors don't play a role in "weeding out" students. Med schools do that when they reject applicants because their organic grades aren't high enough.

Doesn't H contain that island where the closest people are the astronauts in the ISS when it goes overhead?

This is just .... bizarre. It's not just the insecurity and sexism, it's also the need to broadcast it. Anonymity of social media lets people be awful.

About 15 years ago I was on a mission to digitize all my cassettes. I didn't get very far

Nah I have the piano notes from Ghostbusters in my head - "they hate this"

How many "lunchbox poses" do the dinosaurs do? That's my usual metric for Jurassic Park movies these days

A student stopped after class yesterday and said he left his water bottle at the exam. I told him where the lost and found is and said go take your pick!

The ABCs of Emergency medicine
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I started listening in Dec 2008, so almost from the beginning! Great group! Always fun to have MC Stay back in the studio!

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Ugh. Just heard information about the passing of our esteemed colleague Phil Fuchs. An absolute great in the world of organic synthesis.
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One of my favorite memories of Phil. Our pet rats always end up with tumors so I asked Phil, 'Do you have anything at Endocyte that can cure mammary tumors in rats?' We got a chuckle out of it. He said he'd look into it. Last few times I talked with him he couldn't stop talking about LIFT

Phil Low, Purdue drug discovery scholar and impactful innovator whose discoveries saved lives, dies at 78 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University drug discovery scholar and faculty member, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Philip Low, whose life’s work turned laboratory discoveries into therapies that…

Very saddened at the loss of our esteemed colleague.

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But in 1900, it was sufficiently unusual that it had to be stated in the paper that he built it. I just find that fascinating.

Everybody likes to quote Gomberg's statement in his original JACS CommEd ("I wish to reserve the field to myself") but my favorite part is where he explains how he had to create an apparatus to exclude oxygen and water. In today's era of Schlenk lines and glove boxes, this is routine