CCL: And now something completely different!

 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
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 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
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