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Ruben Meerman

@surfnscientist

On a mission to teach children, parents and teachers that the carbon atoms in the food we eat are the carbon atoms we exhale as CO₂

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Alicia, Amy and Lily watched us doing cute experiments with baking soda and vinegar on Roller Coaster, ~15yrs ago, now all doing a PhD in chemistry. Time flies. Good luck ladies!!! #RACI2022

Alicia, Amy and Lily watched us doing cute experiments with baking soda and vinegar on Roller Coaster, ~15yrs ago, now all doing a PhD in chemistry. Time flies. Good luck ladies!!! #RACI2022
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Mister Ian Stuart, aka, Ian Stuart’s Atomic School on abc730, teaching "high school" chemistry to primary school kids at Ithaca Creek State School in 2012, as discussed at #RACI2022 today. Royal Australian Chemical Institute abc.net.au/7.30/weird-sci…

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Hey science lovers, a whole movie about CARBON on ABC TV and iView TONIGHT! Very excited to see how the geniuses at Genepool Productions tell this element's story.

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Hey young guns! Wanna become a science communicator? Applications are open for the amazing anu Masters program. You will be touring Oz with the Questacon Science Circus, ie, "learning by doing" and having the time of your life. Get in there! science.anu.edu.au/node/4235?fbcl…

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YES to much more of this research and YES to teaching this in primary and high school science and H&PE x.com/griffith_uni/s…

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Fascinating, must-read, article about human metabolism by the amazing Herman Pontzer ... and you should also read all his other papers, articles, and book (Burn) scientificamerican.com/article/new-hu…

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Fascinating new study about hyper-palatable foods and why we tend to overeat them with some surprising and important results on the protein front. Amazing work by Dr Tera Fazzino and colleagues. Excellent summary by Kevin Hall. 👏👏👏

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G-day Brady Johnston, Molecular Nodes is AMAZING! I am trying to display double bonds but no luck. Can you spot what I'm doing wrong here with vitamin A? Imported as PDB from Avogadro. Do I need another node? Any tips much appreciated 🙏

G-day <a href="/bradyajohnston/">Brady Johnston</a>, Molecular Nodes is AMAZING! I am trying to display double bonds but no luck. Can you spot what I'm doing wrong here with vitamin A? Imported as PDB from Avogadro. Do I need another node? Any tips much appreciated 🙏
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Planning out a bunch of #Blender3d and #MolecularNodes tutorials to get it all up to speed for the updated addon. What would you like to see covered? Will have a few on the basics, but can expand into particular styles / techniques etc.

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Nearly 10 years since I published this calculation and more than 230 years since Antoine Lavoisier realised "respiration is a combustion" and most of the world is still basically clueless about how weight loss and fire really works. Our work is not yet done.

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🇺🇸 This has been a long time coming! US friends - if you have contacts or colleagues who might be interested in having me speak or run workshops, please reach out. More details available if you DM or email ([email protected])!

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Hey teachers! It’s not too late to join us in Bangkok for an amazing science education conference. Ian Stuart’s Atomic School and I will show you how to breathe life into your lessons by including the atoms and molecules as early as Year 1, or even earlier. We can’t wait!

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It’s amazing how much children A) love learning about the atoms they’re made of and B) how capable they are of grasping this incredible concept. So great to work with Ian Stuart’s Atomic School and Bangkok Patana CPL who are leading the way

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Thank you Carly and Bangkok Patana School and The ASE for the opportunity to demonstrate how eager and capable Year 1 children are of learning about photosynthesis at the molecular level. What a fantastic conference!!! This is what I live for🌿

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Dear Brady Johnston, you legend. Could you remind me how to add hydrogen atoms when importing directly from rscb.org? Is this possible, or should I import into, eg, ChimeraX, add them there, export, and then open the PDB in Blender... i.e. am I just being lazy? 🤓