Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Jan 14th, 2005
A research team based out of the physics department here at Virginia Commonwealth University (where I call home) has discovered clusters of Aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. This is the first indication of what is being called “Superatom Chemistry.” Rather [...]
Jan 8th, 2005
I have just finished installing a pretty tough spam-blocker caller Spam Karma. You can find out more about it here. Since my last post on the subject, I have been hit with a few hundred more comment spams. I had increased the spam filters sensitivity, and that kept most of the spam from being displayed. [...]
Jan 3rd, 2005
I’ve always been a big fan of “Caveman Science.” Take a big rock, smash something, and see what happens. Ahhhh, satisfaction. As a child I would use whatever I could to deconstruct whatever I could, with the purpose of learning how the thing worked. Of course, I usually just blew it up only to find [...]
Jan 1st, 2005
I leave for a little while, come back, and I’m faced with the largest pile of rotten filth I’ve ever seen. You may have noticed that our comments have been hijacked by spammers. I’m trying to delete the spam, but they have managed to prevent that via some evil tricks. I will have them gone [...]