A III Reunião Ibérica de Colóides e Interfaces irá ser realizada em Granada, Espanha, de 13 a 15 de Julho de 2009.
As comunicações abordarão os seguintes temas
Para mais informações visite o site: http://rici3.ugr.es/
O Universo não só é mais estranho do que imaginamos, como é mais estranho do que podemos imaginar.
Sir Arthur Eddington
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”
Lord Rutherford
World Science Day for Peace and Development
“Every year, World Science Day is celebrated around the globe on 10 November. This year’s theme is Investing in science: investing in knowledge, a theme which intentionally mirrors that of the World Science Forum taking place in Budapest from 8 to 10 November. The Forum will be taking stock of the state of investment in R&D and the hurdles countries face in stepping up R&D intensity, including extreme poverty and lack of capacity.
Read the UNESCO Director-General’s message to mark the occasion of World Science Day.
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SOURCE: http://www.unesco.org/science/psd/wsd07/wsd07_en.shtml
Conferência a realizar a 25 e 26 de Outubro de 2007.
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Tópicos :
Teoria das cordas e o paradoxo da não verificabilidade
Que Progressos nas Ciências da Vida?
Incompletude e inconsistência
O nosso entendimento sobre o lugar do homem no universo
Entre os oradores estarão Freeman Dyson e Gerald Edelman (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine” in 1972 ).
Mais informação em :
http://dn.sapo.pt/2007/10/18/ciencia/ciencia_debate_fundacao_gulbenkian.html
Deve o criacionismo ser leccionado numa aula de biologia do ensino secundário?
Acho que este cartoon faz uma boa análise da situação. 
Cartoon originally posted in : http://nebioq-up.blogspot.com/2007/10/ciencia-vs-criacionismo-porque-nao.html
22nd Conference of the European Colloid and Interface SocietyScope and Topics of ECIS 2008
The Conference traditionally covers a broad spectrum of colloid and interface science, ranging from fundamentals such as: interactions, stability, aggregation, phase transitions, electrokinetics, rheology, to applications, e.g., drug delivery systems, biosensors, biocompatible coatings, membranes, colloid and nanoparticle based catalysis, photocatalysis, optical filters, etc.
An essential issues of the Conference will be a proper description of the surface-mediated organisation of nanoparticle systems polyelectrolytes, colloids, mineral particles, proteins into hierarchical structures of targeted architecture and functionality, using, e.g. the layer by layer technique.
1. Dispersed and colloidal systems - bulk properties, agregation.
2. Surfactants, polyelectrolytes and biocolloids.
3. Concentrated dispersed systems - rheology, phase transitions.
4. Interactions of particles with surfaces, adsorption - theory and experiment.
5. Modelling of colloid dynamics and structure.
6. Active and Functional Interfaces.
7. Novel bulk and surface colloid systems - applications.
Note: text copied from the conference homepage
Someone had the idea of searching up molecules which have “unusual” names that somewhat resemble other things. For instance, did you know that there is a molecule called “arsole”? Or that there is another one called “megaphone”? or even a “pterodactyladiene”?
The list is quite extensive. Here is the site Enjoy and learn .
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/sillymolecules/sillymols.htm
just one example:
“Mirasorvone: This molecule is part of the defensive chemistry of Thermonectus marmoratus, a beetle
recently named the “sunburst diving beetle”. The discoverers’ at Cornell University named it in honour of the actress Mira Sorvino (right), who, as Dr Susan Tyler in the motion picture Mimic, successfully confronted the
ultimate insect challenge.”
This is a video where the paramagnetic properties of oxygen are demonstrated.
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