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Wired magazine recently wrote about amateur chemistry in an article titled “Don’t Try This at Home” also covered on BoingBoing.net and OpenScience.org (and probably lots of other places too).

I think there are two key points in this article:

Hands-on chemistry education, particularly labs for younger students, is being cut back in the name of safety. (OpenScience.org [...]

In the grocery store checkout line, I ran into a collaborator. We discussed how our research was going, particular some work with nanoparticle transistors.

Afterwards, the older gentleman at the cashier asked me: Grocery Clerk: What’s a nanoparticle?
Me:It’s a very small particle of a substance–maybe 5-10,000 would be the diameter of a piece of hair. [Ed note: [...]

I recently released a new software project that grew out of a personal need. I have thousands of chemistry files on my computer and no good way to sift through them. The web may have sites like Chmoogle and great databases of chemical data out there.

It is easier to use Google to find something from [...]

I’ve read a number of books and articles by Glyn Moody, who tends to cover technology (e.g., Linux).

I stumbled across an article by him on his blog: Open Data in the Age of Exponential Science which references a recent Nature article Science in an exponential world. (Well, the article is from March, but considering the [...]