Michael Evans
@mevans86.bsky.social
Dad. Director of First-year Chemistry at GT. Organic chemistry "expert"; armchair biochemist and photochemist. “Sassiness, youthful energy, and earbuds.”
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Michael Evans
@mevans86.bsky.social
· Oct 23
The Day the Chess Died
When I was a kid, I remember having a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea that there were great musicians who died young. Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin come to mind, since they should’…
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Another patzer's Daniel Naroditsky story. 😔 Rest in peace, Daniel. You will be sorely missed by millions of chess fans. Wishing I'd made it to Charlotte to meet you.
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I don't like to do anything to discourage students from speaking up in class. But a CTL collaborator recently asked us if we should be teaching students "how to ask good questions," and that's been bugging me! Some thoughts.
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How to Ask Good Questions
One of my colleagues likes to tell students “we don’t put adjectives on questions,” after the inevitable hedge of “this might be a dumb question, but…” This coll…
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November 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I don't like to do anything to discourage students from speaking up in class. But a CTL collaborator recently asked us if we should be teaching students "how to ask good questions," and that's been bugging me! Some thoughts.
moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/h...
moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/h...
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Do you need understanding to play chess?
In the past, yes, nowadays, much less so.
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In the past, yes, nowadays, much less so.
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Do You Need Understanding?
I have been taught and grew up with the idea that you need to understand chess in order to play it well.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Do you need understanding to play chess?
In the past, yes, nowadays, much less so.
gmalexcolovic.substack.com/p/do-you-nee...
In the past, yes, nowadays, much less so.
gmalexcolovic.substack.com/p/do-you-nee...
YouTube (Google) has decided that my playlists are now "Courses," which is cool, except that "Courses" seem to literally be playlists with no additional features?
elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall
ALT: elmo from sesame street standing in front of a wall
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November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
YouTube (Google) has decided that my playlists are now "Courses," which is cool, except that "Courses" seem to literally be playlists with no additional features?
One of the best explanations of s-p mixing I've seen on the Internet. Writing isn't great, but the diagrams are excellent. #CHEM1211K
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A (More or Less) Complete Explanation on s-p Mixing
A Quick Review on LCAO
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November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
One of the best explanations of s-p mixing I've seen on the Internet. Writing isn't great, but the diagrams are excellent. #CHEM1211K
sypark-chem.me/general-chem...
sypark-chem.me/general-chem...
Me counting down the minutes to our College's town hall on AI at 3.
a woman says i know it 's coming but i want it now in front of a microphone
ALT: a woman says i know it 's coming but i want it now in front of a microphone
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November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Me counting down the minutes to our College's town hall on AI at 3.
Another historic meltdown from the Atlanta Falcons.
Any other owner would’ve had a heart attack and died watching them; presumably Arthur Blank is literally a cyborg. 🤷♂️
Any other owner would’ve had a heart attack and died watching them; presumably Arthur Blank is literally a cyborg. 🤷♂️
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Another historic meltdown from the Atlanta Falcons.
Any other owner would’ve had a heart attack and died watching them; presumably Arthur Blank is literally a cyborg. 🤷♂️
Any other owner would’ve had a heart attack and died watching them; presumably Arthur Blank is literally a cyborg. 🤷♂️
Cool metaphor in the comments of hydronium as a hot potato: fine in a crowd, but get it by itself and it becomes highly unstable.
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From the chemistry community on Reddit: Why can’t you isolate hydronium chloride as a salt?
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November 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Cool metaphor in the comments of hydronium as a hot potato: fine in a crowd, but get it by itself and it becomes highly unstable.
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Whoa. This is a copy of the workbook I used in freshman English (high school) in 2000—exact same edition, just sitting on a table at the library. Memories.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Whoa. This is a copy of the workbook I used in freshman English (high school) in 2000—exact same edition, just sitting on a table at the library. Memories.
Followed by Penix with a “you had one job” moment unaware that he’s the first person to touch the ball after a snap.
Guys, please get blown out next time and save us all the trouble.
Guys, please get blown out next time and save us all the trouble.
FALCONS FALCONING 🚨🚨🚨 Epic touchdown to get to 23 - 24 is immediately followed by missing the PAT 💀 4 mins to go in the fourth.
Just pain. So much pain.
Just pain. So much pain.
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Followed by Penix with a “you had one job” moment unaware that he’s the first person to touch the ball after a snap.
Guys, please get blown out next time and save us all the trouble.
Guys, please get blown out next time and save us all the trouble.
FALCONS FALCONING 🚨🚨🚨 Epic touchdown to get to 23 - 24 is immediately followed by missing the PAT 💀 4 mins to go in the fourth.
Just pain. So much pain.
Just pain. So much pain.
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
FALCONS FALCONING 🚨🚨🚨 Epic touchdown to get to 23 - 24 is immediately followed by missing the PAT 💀 4 mins to go in the fourth.
Just pain. So much pain.
Just pain. So much pain.
Change one letter, ruin a candy:
Blow Sop
Blow Sop
Change one letter, ruin a candy:
Sugar Rabies
Sugar Rabies
Change one letter, ruin a candy:
Gummy Beard
Gummy Beard
October 29, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Change one letter, ruin a candy:
Blow Sop
Blow Sop
Starch gummies are the best. Full stop.
Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic?
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
October 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Starch gummies are the best. Full stop.
Some thoughts from earlier in the term on teaching thermochemistry.
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On Teaching Thermochemistry
I can’t tell if I just don’t like the way I teach thermochemistry, I don’t like thermochemistry itself, or I just suck at teaching it. Whatever it is, I seem to always wind up dis…
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October 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Some thoughts from earlier in the term on teaching thermochemistry.
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Why am I working on Sunday? It's called "rage-working." I'm distracting myself from the embarrassment that is my city's football team.
a cartoon character is standing in front of a keyboard
ALT: a cartoon character is standing in front of a keyboard
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October 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Why am I working on Sunday? It's called "rage-working." I'm distracting myself from the embarrassment that is my city's football team.
The Atlanta Falcons.
That’s it. That’s the joke.
That’s it. That’s the joke.
October 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The Atlanta Falcons.
That’s it. That’s the joke.
That’s it. That’s the joke.
Another patzer's Daniel Naroditsky story. 😔 Rest in peace, Daniel. You will be sorely missed by millions of chess fans. Wishing I'd made it to Charlotte to meet you.
moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...
moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...
The Day the Chess Died
When I was a kid, I remember having a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea that there were great musicians who died young. Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin come to mind, since they should’…
moleculeworld.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Another patzer's Daniel Naroditsky story. 😔 Rest in peace, Daniel. You will be sorely missed by millions of chess fans. Wishing I'd made it to Charlotte to meet you.
moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...
moleculeworld.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...
I've been grading lab reports, and my dumb ass thought students were learning matplotlib to make graphs. 🤦 Nope, ChatGPT knows matplotlib and students are just feeding it their data.
It's lazy but I can live with it. Never attribute "students being awesome" to what can be explained by laziness. 😅
It's lazy but I can live with it. Never attribute "students being awesome" to what can be explained by laziness. 😅
October 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I've been grading lab reports, and my dumb ass thought students were learning matplotlib to make graphs. 🤦 Nope, ChatGPT knows matplotlib and students are just feeding it their data.
It's lazy but I can live with it. Never attribute "students being awesome" to what can be explained by laziness. 😅
It's lazy but I can live with it. Never attribute "students being awesome" to what can be explained by laziness. 😅
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good morning from no kings decatur
October 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
good morning from no kings decatur
Duke fumbles on the GT 3 yard line; Tech recovers and runs it 97 yards for a touchdown.
The Jackets are officially in the good graces of the football gods this year. 🙏🐝
The Jackets are officially in the good graces of the football gods this year. 🙏🐝
October 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Duke fumbles on the GT 3 yard line; Tech recovers and runs it 97 yards for a touchdown.
The Jackets are officially in the good graces of the football gods this year. 🙏🐝
The Jackets are officially in the good graces of the football gods this year. 🙏🐝
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Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
October 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."
It's a must-read:
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Fellow Georgians: here's a chance for a small number of voters to have an outsized impact on November 4. Public Service Commission elections - boring but important! as described in the linked video.
@austinlouisray.bsky.social this seems like the sort of thing you might care to signal boost 🫡
@austinlouisray.bsky.social this seems like the sort of thing you might care to signal boost 🫡
I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video
YouTube video by Hank Green
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October 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Fellow Georgians: here's a chance for a small number of voters to have an outsized impact on November 4. Public Service Commission elections - boring but important! as described in the linked video.
@austinlouisray.bsky.social this seems like the sort of thing you might care to signal boost 🫡
@austinlouisray.bsky.social this seems like the sort of thing you might care to signal boost 🫡