A few months back, a small twitter hashtag got kind of crazy - #overlyhonestmethods
Its a hashtag full of scientists admitting shortcuts in research, along with the daily face palms and annoyances of a scientific lifestyle. Science is hard, yo.
I decided to steal some of the more popular tweets from the trending hashtag along with some random images of scientists from Google image search and combine them. This is the result. it works, I think.
The full album can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/x77kL
I HAVE SO MUCH HATE FOR PAYWALLS.
Today 10^23 2012 is Mole Day!
As we celebrate Mole Day on October 23, The Virtual School brings you a Mole Day music video to the tune of Bonnie Tyler’s ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’.
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This video is distributed under a Creative Commons License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
CC BY-NC-ND
Sky footage from NatureClip, 2011
Background music from Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart
Lyrics:
Underground, moles are little animals with really weird noses who like to dig around
Round and brown, every here and there you’ll find a hairy brown spot on your skin, we also call that a mole!
Search around, moles are spies who work in private espionage, they spy in secret, and they don’t make a sound
Also found,
Everywhere in mexico Mole is a spicy sauce
Same spelling but a whole different sound!
Turnaround blind eyes
Don’t you know it’s more than you can tell
Turnaround blind eyes, moles can also mean something else
‘Cos in chemistry a mole.
Is a unit used to measure,
The atoms or molecules,
In a substance of whatever!
It’s the number of carbon twelve atoms
In twelve grams of carbon…
Matter’s filled with way too many atoms to count,
So use Avogadro’s number to express the amount!
For any type of matter: solid, liquid or gas,
The grams within a mole will equal atomic mass.
All you need is a mole!
Six-oh-two sextillion!
Six-oh-two sextillion!
Six point oh two two, one four oh seven eight,
Times 10 to power of twenty three
That number’s a mole
We use it in chemistry.
Once upon a time Avogadro said hey!
And showed us the way out of the dark,
His number you must use,
A molar eclipse of the heart.
A molar eclipse of the heart.








