organic-chemistry
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I’ve had a project idea on the back burner for some time for an in-class module centered around a Socratic dialogue. The idea is that a student volunteer would interact with me as I delivered the lesson (I had the mechanism of second order nucleophilic substitution in mind). I want to turn a passive lecture
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I recently bought a chessboard so that I can play against my young daughter and we can learn the game together. In a previous essay on chirality (right/left asymmetry) I used the example of boxing to describe the possible combinations of two chiral objects. Looking at my new wooden chessboard, it occurred to me that
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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
The Model Kit 