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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 17d

In the latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics, we take a look at the ingredients doing more than spicing up our cooking: cen.acs.org/biological-c...

#chemsky 🧪

This graphic explains four examples of chemicals in spices having effects outside cooking. The four examples include a clove compound’s ability to treat toothaches, a nutmeg compound’s ability to cause hallucinations, a licorice extract compound’s ability to raise blood pressure, and a fenugreek compound’s ability to make urine and sweat smell like maple syrup.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Sep 24

The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.

Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?

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Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Sep 21

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Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Sep 21

🧪 Week #5 in the Intro Orgo lab is all about molecular Structure and Strain. What better way to illustrate than the Nitrogen Triiodide demo 🧪(#Shakashiri).
@chemistryworld.com @compoundchem.com @chemed2025co.bsky.social @cenmag.bsky.social @cerg.bsky.social

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Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Sep 21

🧪 Long overdue update from high school Intro to Organic Chem lab: August week #1: Scopoletin Extraction from Sycamore bark in water. Fluorescence improved in higher pH conditions 🧪
@compoundchem.com @cerg.bsky.social @chemed2025co.bsky.social @chemistryworld.com
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Andy Brunning @andy.compoundchem.com · Sep 9

Here’s the resultant inkcap ink. Pro tip: don’t sniff it. I made this mistake and now the stench of mushroom death may never leave my nostrils 🤢

Photo of a glass jar with a dark brown liquid in it on a kitchen counter

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · Sep 6

it's Saturday, and it's time for "this week in stupid: September 6 edition" — Morning Joe blithers, Senator Kennedy dithers, and so much more...
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this week in stupid: September 6 edition

Morning Joe blithers, Senator Kennedy dithers, and so much more...

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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · Sep 6

The village – a collaborative effort between the governments of Namibia and Germany – was established in 2023.

Namibia’s first green hydrogen village will supply region with zero carbon fertiliser

Project hopes to supply Europe with fertiliser as renewable energy generation is ramped up

www.chemistryworld.com

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · Aug 27

Aotearoa New Zealand launches campaign to find love for Ned, a rare & lonely left-spiralling snail.

Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right, but Ned’s shell results in reversed reproductive organs – a barrier to mating.

🧪🐌❤️

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New Zealand launches campaign to find love for rare and lonely left-spiralling snail Ned

Nearly all common garden snails have shells that coil to the right but Ned the snail’s left-spiralling shell results in reversed reproductive organs – a barrier to mating

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 19

(Guardian) - Household electricity bills have increased by 10% since Donald Trump re-entered the White House, a new report has found, with its authors highlighting the impact of the president’s datacenter boosterism .. as part of the cause.

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Aug 4

🧪 Back from @chemed2025co.bsky.social and reenergized to get things going for the fall semester…so I started by testing the new “Atmospheric Pressure PingPong Cannon(APPPC).” The new vacuum pump really helps…🧪
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · Jul 27

here's today's post: "Preznit Fuckwit gets the Scottish welcome he deserves" — he’s such an international embarrassment.
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Preznit Fuckwit gets the Scottish welcome he deserves

he’s such an international embarrassment

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · Jul 23

can it be today? please?
find this shit on my website: eatf.art/off

A mug that reads "one day everyone who needs to fuck off will fuck off"

A shirt that reads "one day everyone who needs to fuck off will fuck off"

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · Jul 24

A painting of a bird next to the words "looks like we're dealing with a big ol' turd sandwich"

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Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Jul 22

Making tin metal castings @chemed2025co.bsky.social

Yeah science!
@cleapss.bsky.social
@acscwd.bsky.social
Who says the penny has been cancelled?

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Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Jul 20

Today is the big day! Can’t wait to get there today! Looking forward to the Sunday Make n Takes!!

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Refn @malebranche.bsky.social · Jun 20

This needs to go under every single corporate announcement or advertisement about some bullshit “AI” feature they added.

Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · Jun 20

A painting of a bird next to the words "wait, you think people like this shit?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 20

Yesterday, Donald Trump said that the U.S. has "too many non-working holidays."

Our so-called "pro-worker president" thinks that workers should have fewer days off.

Meanwhile, he's spending a huge chunk of his presidency (and taxpayer dollars) on the golf course.

Hello?

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Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Jun 17

I’m beginning to think this is not the official account of the US Mint. I could be wrong but something tells me….

Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Jun 17

Sorry dude, didn’t mean to harsh on your mellow. Enjoy

Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Jun 17

So where do those lovey freshly minted beauties go next? And how does Joe American get ahold of some rolls? Any advice?

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Eric Knispel @shagalabagalas.bsky.social · Jun 17

That is weirdly descriptive…clean up the mess and get back to work.

on a side note, how come its so difficult to find rolls of uncirculated pennies? No bank can help me.
I use the hell out of them in the chemistry lab…but they need to be fresh!

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · Jun 17

here's today's post: "Preznit Fuckwit shits the bed at the G7 and goes home in a huff" — 24 hours with our great national embarrassment.
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Preznit Fuckwit shits the bed at the G7 and goes home in a huff

24 hours with our great national embarrassment

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The Onion @theonion.com · Jun 14

“We found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, and I’m terrified to think how the situation would have shaken out if he’d been able to say even one of them aloud,” said Kristi Noem theonion.com/kristi-...

Kristi Noem: Sen. Padilla Had Even Deadlier Opinion That Failed To Go Off

LOS ANGELES—Stressing that she had significant reason to fear for her life during yesterday’s confrontation, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told reporters Friday that she believed Sen. Alex Padilla had an even deadlier opinion that failed to go off. “We found this individual possessed a second, far more lethal string of words locked and loaded, […]

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