From owner-chemistry-: at :-ccl.net Thu Aug 20 22:22:00 2009 From: "Soren Eustis soreneustis^^^gmail.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: And now something completely different! Message-Id: <-40042-090820150427-25971-zKZ2nq2dlxFPPPP6KIA1rQ()server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Soren Eustis" Content-language: en-us Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:03:54 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: "Soren Eustis" [soreneustis-x-gmail.com] I would have to say that I am more than a little surprised at the backlash > from this YouTube posting. It is elementary indeed, and no doubt most of us like to think those we teach are well beyond such elementary things. However, often there are more than a few people in any given class that benefit enormously by such elementary ways of teaching. I am all for conceptual visualizations, and I think we shouldn't turn our nose up at such a work. No science will come of it, but perhaps someone will have an a-ha moment and then go back and actually learn something. Soren N. Eustis, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate ETH - Zurich Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics Universitaetstrasse 16 8092 Zurich Switzerland -----Original Message----- > From: owner-chemistry+soreneustis==gmail.com]|[ccl.net [mailto:owner-chemistry+soreneustis==gmail.com]|[ccl.net] On Behalf Of Mihaly Mezei Mihaly.Mezei * mssm.edu Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 19:15 To: Eustis, Soren Newman Subject: CCL: And now something completely different! Sent to CCL by: Mihaly Mezei [Mihaly.Mezei::mssm.edu] Greetings, reading Dr. Jensen's comment on the "educational film explaining the interaction of molecules with light" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceoO18RTiZI) made me go and watch it. I share Dr. Jensen's shock. It may be fun to watch, but it has hardly anything to do with pchem research. This video reminded me of the blind man's query about milk: Milk is white, he was told. Ok, but what is white? Oh, white is like a swan. Yes, but what is a swan? You know, the bird with an S-shaped neck. Thanks, Now I know what milk is. Mihaly Mezei Department of Structural and Chemical Biology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYU Voice: (212) 659-5475 Fax: (212) 849-2456 WWW (MSSM home): http://www.mountsinai.org/Find%20A%20Faculty/profile.do?id=00000725000014971 92632 WWW (Lab home - software, publications): http://inka.mssm.edu/~mezei WWW (Department): http://atlas.physbio.mssm.eduhttp://www.ccl.net/cgi-bin/ccl/send_ccl_messagehttp://www.ccl.net/chemistry/sub_unsub.shtmlhttp://www.ccl.net/spammers.txt