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ChemEd X contributors and staff members are continually coming across items of interest that they feel others may wish to know about. Picks include, but need not be limited to, books, magazines, journals, articles, apps—most anything that has a link to it can qualify.

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Can You Spot the Real Outlier? by Eileen Pollack
// Monday, October 7, 2013 • Hal Harris
Why is it that there are so few women, and especially women faculty members in the physical sciences, engineering, and mathematics? Eileen Pollack argues that, even in the enlightened year of 2013, there remains conscious and unconscious bias against women in these fields, even by women faculty members.
ChemMatters
// Thursday, October 3, 2013 • Deanna Cullen
ChemMatters is an educational magazine containing articles on topics for high school chemistry students. The articles explain the connection between what chemistry students learn in school and the world around them.
Beyond Benign
// Thursday, October 3, 2013 • Deanna Cullen
Environmental studies can be included in any science curriculum.  Whether you are looking for lessons to incorporate ideas related to "green chemistry" or you are looking to use safer methods and materials in the laboratory, you will find many great resources at this site.  There are new labs and also replacement labs for some of those famil
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration
// Monday, September 23, 2013 • Hal Harris
Buzz Aldrin is one of a handful of men who have visited the moon, and of even a smaller number who have set foot on our satellite.  He relishes the memory of those glorious days, and proposes in this book that the US divert huge amounts of money from fruitful scientific investigation of space by robots toward human exploration projects.
The Thermodynamic Sinks of this World by Roald Hoffman
// Monday, June 24, 2013 • Hal Harris
Nobelist Roald Hoffman usually chooses an intriguing topic for his regular contributions to the Sigma Xi bimonthly, American Scientist. For the current issue, he has chosen to examine the question, "What would be the result of mixing a collection of the elements we find on earth and its nearby environment and heating them up enough to encourage them to
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier
// Saturday, June 15, 2013 • Hal Harris
Jaron Lanier is an expert on digital networks and media, and is known as a pioneer in virtual reality, a term that he created.  He has been involved in numerous Silicon Valley start-ups that have been bought out and are now parts of Adobe, Oracle, and Google.
Using MOOCs to Create a Flipped Classroom
// Friday, May 31, 2013 • Arrietta Clauss
Universities, community colleges, and high schools can use MOOCs to create an environment to enhance student learning.  Last fall a professor at San Jose State used recorded MOOC lectures in an introductory electrical engineering course to create a flipped classroom.  Students passed at a much higher rate than usual—91%, compared with 59% a