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I decided to call this blog The Model Kit because the way that I have come to approach teaching organic chemistry is to begin with these simple physical molecular models and to teach the subject in a similar way as an artist learns to draw by observing an object. Learning organic chemistry is often compared
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Using the insights from organic chemistry to understand asymmetries everywhere. Asymmetries make the world interesting. They also arise spontaneously in the evolution of complex systems such as living beings. Asymmeties abound in organic biological molecules such as proteins, carbohydrates and the building blocks of DNA because carbon-based molecules share a property we are familiar with
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At the time of this writing, in 2025, it has been a little over a decade since legislative programs started popping up in various states to promote STEAM education. “STEAM’, the incorporation of arts into ‘STEM’ (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics), was as much an admission as a new concept. It was an admission that something
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