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Organic Reaction Flashcards Version 2.0 Is Here!

Organic Reaction Flashcards Version 2.0 Is Here!

May 10, 2013

Do you ever study by making flashcards of reactions? You might recall that a few months ago Rich Apodaca (of Metamolecular) and myself released the first version of The Organic Reactions Flashcard App for iPhone, a mobile app for learning organic chemistry reactions. That initial version of Flashcards was pretty basic – 25 reactions and [...]

Tagged as: app, flashcards, iphone, reagents, study tips

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Pardon The Interruption

Pardon The Interruption

February 5, 2013

  Sorry about that – the website has been down, on and off, for the past two days, but things finally seem to be operational again. Sometime in the middle of last week, the video section stopped working. Then, people were telling me they couldn’t download summary sheets. Finally, on Saturday, I thought I would [...]

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Boring public service announcement

October 29, 2012

MOC is growing in traffic (yea!) but that means that the hamsters inside my current server are running at the brink of exhaustion. I’m migrating/upgrading to a new server service, so no posts for a few days until this gets settled. Hopefully by next week page load times should be snappier too. – MGMT   [...]

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#ChemCoach : Online Organic Chemistry Tutor

October 25, 2012

For any readers who are interested in chemistry as a career, blogger SeeArrOhh of Just Like Cooking is running a blogging carnival called #ChemCoach where chemists talk about their careers and how they got there. If you’re at all interested in the huge variety of jobs that people with a chemistry background do, I highly [...]

Tagged as: stories, teaching, tutoring

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10@10/10/10

October 10, 2010

This is a self indulgent post. Today, October 10, 2010, marks the 10th anniversary of the day I became an organic chemist. Life works in mysterious ways. October 1999, I was miserable. I was finishing up a master’s degree in inorganic chemistry and was telling anyone who would listen that 1) I would never, ever [...]

Tagged as: blogging, fun, history, jerusalem, self-promotion, tutoring

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