Fun links

An interesting article that describes OChem’s applicability to medical school: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/education/edlife/how-to-get-an-a-in-organic-chemistry.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0

UCI Chemistry video, “Chemists know”:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM_I6rtIgn0

Lab Grammies (best science parody of the year):  http://www.biotechniques.com/news/2014-Lab-Grammy-Award-And-the-Nominees-Are…/biotechniques-349555.html#.VE_f-efH_Dk

UCI Chemistry Club: http://www.freewebs.com/ucichemclub/index.htm

Live in UCI Chemistry House: http://www.housing.uci.edu/av/theme.as

Top 100 pharmaceutical compounds by sales: http://cbc.arizona.edu/njardarson/group/top-pharmaceuticals-poster

What’s that Stuff?  Chemistry of everyday products: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html

Did you know?  Neat science info from Dr. Joe Schwarcz: http://www.oss.mcgill.ca/didyknow.php

Ask a scientist – interesting chemistry answers: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem98.htm

Reel Science:  Movie reviews by the American Chemical Society (ACS): http://pubs.acs.org/cen/reelscience/

Timeline of the Universe: http://www.chemsoc.org/timeline/pages/timeline.html

Molecule of the Day: http://scienceblogs.com/moleculeoftheday/

Google tribute to a pioneering synthetic organic chemist, Percy Julian: http://www.google.com/doodles/percy-julians-115th-birthday

Google tribute to Jonas Salk, inventor of the Polio vaccine: https://www.google.com/doodles/jonas-salks-100th-birthday

Coverage of red tides from the LA times in this video series.  Domoic acid is under part 2 “Invisible Killer” and brevetoxin is in part 3 “Toxic Tide”: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-oceans-series,0,6144150.special#axzz2zDYLfbNZ