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Intriguing Chemistry Yodels (iCy)

iCy is a year-long blog to chronicle the International Chemistry Year 2011. iCy will highlight several topics, projects, and interesting chemistry tidbits useful for K-12 instructors as well as the lay public. Much of the content in iCy will derive from the NBC Learn Chemistry Now project. Chemistry Now is an NSF sponsored project to highlight the International Chemistry Year using video, lesson plans, and archival information. Spend the year with us and you’ll learn some cool Chemistry!

Bloggers: Mandë Holford, Assistant Professor in Chemistry at CUNY-Graduate Center and York College and Magid Mohamed, Currently pursuing Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry at CUNY-York College

Spring Chemistry: The Chemistry Behind Cleaning, Clothes and Color!

June 20, 2011 From 1 Response

So old man winter has finally retired home for the season and spring is officially in session. That means three things: spring cleaning, digging out the spring clothing from the [...]

Telescopes, Shamrocks, and Gases

April 27, 2011 From 1 Response

April 15, 2011 Kitt Peak with Jackie Faherty, Astronomer from AMNH 8:05pm  Dome home, paddle the telescope, dome and telescope disjoint behavior… doing a little adjustment.. .going to set [...]

Cheese Burger Chemistry

April 22, 2011 From Leave a response

Module 5: Cheeseburger Chemistry: Burgers Module 5 in our series discusses arguably the most important part of the cheese burger: the hamburger itself. In addition to diving into the historic [...]

This Week in Chemistry: Water, Cheeseburgers, and Schrodinger’s Cat

March 23, 2011 From 2 Responses

Besides just being interested in chemistry, sometimes it’s comforting to know that some of the stuff you learn is actually useful (We’re still trying to figure out the Schrodinger’s Cat [...]

Meet the iCy’ers

March 20, 2011 From Leave a response

For this blog post we’ll go behind the scenes to speak with Beth Nissen, NBCLearn Senior Producer spearheading the project. Beth is Chief SME (pronounced smee, “Subject Matter Expert”)… and [...]

Welcome to iCy!

March 17, 2011 From Leave a response

Thursday, Feb 24, 2011…balcony of my Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel room overlooking the ocean to Catalina Island. No, I’m not on a honeymoon…or prepping for a big Oscar weekend (go [...]