Rictus's posts

Recently I had a fun little experience that reminded me I will never be "normal" and even friends and people who…

I recently attended a major meeting for a highly-technical, leading edge field of research. I also am employed by…

That was my example for the octet rule, and how the noble gases had just the right balance and all the other atoms…

A colleague of mine recently shared this surprisingly detailed story of academic fraud wherein the perpetrator has…

While reading the recent post here about homeopathic treatments for arthritis and the excellent summations of the…

Today was the day the students in two summer programs hosted at a top-notch university presented their summer…

Disclaimer: I enjoy playing soccer. I'm not terribly good at ball skills, but I do understand positioning and can…

I've been a bit fascinated by the discussions about nerd culture (particularly Big Bang Theory) that have turned up…

I wonder, were I a professor in the Kansas public university system, if I could get fired for publishing this. …

If you work at a small university, you have likely noticed the big push over the past decade to get undergraduates,…