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Chemistry Professor at Dalhousie University. Interested in sustainable organic and main-group chemistry, and asymmetric catalysis, with phosphorus, nitrogen, and sulfur compounds. Camper, plant hoarder, and Victorian house enthusiast.
Thanks!
No, that sounds interesting.
Already have :) I am a bit of an apocalyptic fiction nut..... but it's less interesting when real life starts to imitate art.
I forgot about Wall-E, but turns out it was predictive all along.
Me: "Wow, my foot hurts"
Also me: "Hey, I've walked 3000 km in this pair of shoes!"
This is not a green LED! Experiments in using a laser dye in one of my catalytic systems.
TBH I think I might go back to carrying a hard drive back and forth with me.
"Your files are synced"....
Pauses syncing, then resumes
"haha, just kidding, actually nothing's been syncing all day, and last night"
Futures suggest even more of a bloodbath tomorrow.
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Hey, at least the Dow is above 50,000 right?
we're already accustomed to dealing with 3 time-zones (Eastern, Atlantic, and Newfoundland). (2/2)
When I lived in Boston, it was clear it was in the wrong time zone in the summer. I almost wonder given how ubiquitous interconnected devices are that can adjust to time changes, if returning to more, smaller but more locally well-adjusted time zones would make sense. In Eastern Canada, (1/n)
Loss of $3.7M scholarship program will put a 'massive strain' on Nova Scotia graduate students, says former recipient
www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...
Somehow it's been exactly 20 years since I went on my one and only visiting weekend to grad school.
‘Anxious and angry:’ Advocates share impact of budget cut to N.S. caregiver benefit www.halifaxexaminer.ca/province-hou...
For various reasons, I'm familiar with this program... a particularly cruel cut.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
One of the most important solvents in my group. I'm chaotic, so use ACN, MeCN, and CH3CN.
Doesn't feel right to me. I've been searching defunct jello products, and can't find anything that fits... possible it was a different brand.
Who remembers a green jello flavour from the 1980s that was not lime? It was clear, so not pistachio pudding. I suddenly had a craving for it, but don't know what it was!!!! Not as tart as lime. Not apple either.
When my grandmother was sick once, I bought her a crown of thorns, and it grew to be about 6 feet tall.... sadly it was lost at some point due to an unfortunate circumstance. I've had quite a few since then. The mother plant looks very very ragged.... don't have a good photo of it here at work.
My less fancy hoya and euphorbia also flowering in my office right now!
go deeper into the UV, with a catalyst that would normally work with blue light? It's not a great concept from efficiency of photon energy, but is there a downside to catalyst performance? (2/2)
Curious how bad having the "wrong" wavelength of light, in the more energetic direction is, in a photochemical reaction? In a lot of reactions, with blue LEDs you're not hitting the maximum absorption of the system which falls into the UV, but more a shoulder. What happens instead if you (1/n)
Yeah, not looking forward to my walk to class.....
At tonight's African Nova Scotian Heritage Month Gala at the Halifax Convention Centre Tim Houston was LOUDLY and justly BOOOOED.
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My reaction this morning.... "it's warm, maybe spring is coming... let's check the weather...... Oh...."
Woken up by a very loud fog-horn this morning!
I had a funny dream, that I accomplished everything I wanted to do in chemistry, and applied to a physics PhD program, with the idea I would prove I could get a first-author paper in my PhD.
Still have a lot of things I want to accomplish in chemistry in real life!
This is super-helpful to think about!