Chemical Heritage Foundation Produces Distillations, a Weekly Podcast
Chemical Heritage Foundation Produces Distillations, a Weekly Podcast
In December 2007, the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF), based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, launched a new weekly podcast. Distillations: Extracts from the Past, Present, and Future of Chemistry offers entertaining reports on subjects ranging from alchemy to the contents of your kitchen cupboard to the chemistry of space exploration. It makes the wonders of chemistry available to listeners around the world.
Distillations airs every Friday and features host Robert D. Hicks, director of the Roy Eddleman Institute for Interpretation and Education at CHF, and guests. Recorded in Philadelphia and produced in San Francisco, Distillations has a radio-quality sound that you can listen to wherever your iPod takes you.
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In the premier episode of Distillations, “Communicating Chemistry,” listeners can hear Paul Smith, a Michael Faraday reenactor from Purdue University, explain how public chemistry lectures enchanted Londoners in the early decades of the nineteenth century. In this episode’s installation of “The Element of the Week,” a recurring segment, you’ll hear how phlogiston was discovered and subsequently discarded in favor of the element we now call oxygen.
Episode 4, titled “Measurement,” includes a brief interview with Norman Holden, Brookhaven National Laboratories, on changing atomic weights and the valuable work done under the IUPAC Commission on Isotopic Abundance and Atomic Weights (II.1). On a different issue related to measurements, a brief account of the debates over how to fix the standard kilogram is also included in that podcast. <http://distillations.chemheritage.org/?p=55>.
Each show lasts 6 to 10 minutes. Distillations is available free of charge through the iTunes store and at its website <http://distillations.chemheritage.org>.
Show topics are varied and have included the following: Wonder Drug, Color, Electronic, and Cleaning Up. Distillations is a presentation of CHF and is made possible by the generous support of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.
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- Masthead
- Contents
- Adding a Stone to the IUPAC Edifice
- Spain Celebrates Its Year of Science Honoring Mendeleev
- Where Does IUPAC Stand with Regard to this Discipline?
- Triads, Triads, Everywhere
- Chemistry in the Information and Communications Technology Age
- Analytical Terminology and the Orange Book–The Resources at the End of the Rainbow
- Peter Mahaffy Awarded 3M Canada Teaching Fellowship
- Pieter S. Steyn Receives Science for Society Gold Medal
- Chemical Heritage Foundation Produces Distillations, a Weekly Podcast
- Mechanistic Aspects of Chemical Vapor Generation of Volatile Hydrides for Trace Element Determination
- Assessment of Theoretical Methods for the Study of Reactions Involving Global Warming Gas Species Degradation and Byproduct Formation
- Analysis of the Usage of Nanoscience and Technology in Chemistry
- Extension of ThermoML–The IUPAC Standard for Thermodynamic Data Communications
- Provisional Recommendations
- Further Conventions for NMR Shielding and Chemical Shifts (IUPAC Recommendations 2008)
- Transport of Pesticides via Macropores (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Performance Evaluation Criteria for Preparation and Measurement of Macro- and Microfabricated Ion-Selective Electrodes (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Chemists and “The Public”: IUPAC’s Role in Achieving Mutual Understanding (IUPAC Technical Report)
- DE STERS!
- Glossary of Terms Related to Solubility (IUPAC Recommendations 2008)
- Structure-Based Nomenclature for Cyclic Organic Macromolecules (IUPAC Recommendations 2008)
- Impact of Scientific Developments on the Chemical Weapons Convention (IUPAC Technical Report)
- Graphical Representation Standards for Chemical Structure Diagrams (IUPAC Recommendations 2008)
- The Periodic Table: Database or XML?
- The Investigation of Organic Reactions and their Mechanisms
- Modern Physical Chemistry for Advanced Materials
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