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fleetfootmike) wrote2011-12-02 10:25 pm
fleetfootmike) wrote2011-12-02 10:25 pm
Matters arising...
I had a long chat with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
were_gopher on the way back from Olney, and a number of interesting web sites that I promised I'd give her links to cropped up. For the entertainment of my friends list, I'll happily make them public.
Things I won't work with - an industrial chemist with a very very dry sense of humour reviews some of the chemicals that you would basically have to be certifiable to want to handle. Killingly funny - more so if you have any nodding acquaintance with chemistry at GCSE or beyond. Here he is discussing the absolutely mental dioxygen difluoride:
The History Of Rome podcast (iTunes link) - Mike Duncan, an American history graduate with a love for Ancient Rome, has been podcasting the history of Rome in 15 minute weekly chunks, starting at Romulus and Remus and working on. He's now at episode 160, and 390 AD. This is currently keeping me sane and educated on my (much shorter) commute to work. If you can stand his American pronunciation, it's well worth a listen, as he explains things clearly and entertainingly.
The Ancient Warfare podcast (iTunes link) - offshoot of the rather excellent Ancient Warfare magazine (now available in selected WH Smiths as of today) - four historians (usually the same crew) with an hour or so going deeper on topics the magazine has covered. If ancient warfare interests you, it's fantastic.
École Secondaire Dorval-Jean XXIII (in Canada)'s percussion band performing King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man - the sound isn't the best and the video angle isn't either, but it's worth watching because it's an amazing version, the kids (especially the group of young ladies on mallets) are so getting into it, and heck, who wouldn't like a school music teacher who'd arrange THAT for band!
were_gopher on the way back from Olney, and a number of interesting web sites that I promised I'd give her links to cropped up. For the entertainment of my friends list, I'll happily make them public.Things I won't work with - an industrial chemist with a very very dry sense of humour reviews some of the chemicals that you would basically have to be certifiable to want to handle. Killingly funny - more so if you have any nodding acquaintance with chemistry at GCSE or beyond. Here he is discussing the absolutely mental dioxygen difluoride:
The paper goes on to react FOOF with everything else you wouldn't react it with: ammonia ("vigorous", this at 100K), water ice (explosion, natch), chlorine ("violent explosion", so he added it more slowly the second time), red phosphorus (not good), bromine fluoride, chlorine trifluoride (say what?), perchloryl fluoride (!), tetrafluorohydrazine (how on Earth. . .), and on, and on. If the paper weren't laid out in complete grammatical sentences and published in JACS, you'd swear it was the work of a violent lunatic.
The History Of Rome podcast (iTunes link) - Mike Duncan, an American history graduate with a love for Ancient Rome, has been podcasting the history of Rome in 15 minute weekly chunks, starting at Romulus and Remus and working on. He's now at episode 160, and 390 AD. This is currently keeping me sane and educated on my (much shorter) commute to work. If you can stand his American pronunciation, it's well worth a listen, as he explains things clearly and entertainingly.
The Ancient Warfare podcast (iTunes link) - offshoot of the rather excellent Ancient Warfare magazine (now available in selected WH Smiths as of today) - four historians (usually the same crew) with an hour or so going deeper on topics the magazine has covered. If ancient warfare interests you, it's fantastic.
École Secondaire Dorval-Jean XXIII (in Canada)'s percussion band performing King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man - the sound isn't the best and the video angle isn't either, but it's worth watching because it's an amazing version, the kids (especially the group of young ladies on mallets) are so getting into it, and heck, who wouldn't like a school music teacher who'd arrange THAT for band!
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And from the earlier entry on chlorine trifluoride: "It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water".
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"...that goes fizz...KABOOM!"