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Apollo 8: First Humans Around the Moon
After the success of Apollo 7, all eyes were on the moon, and sending astronauts into lunar orbit. But the decision to do this in the mission immedia…
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E/Z Absolute Configuration of Alkenes
It's EZ to assign E and Z absolute configuration to alkenes. Guess which convention we get to use? Cahn-Ingold-Prelog is back! Don't forget, zee zame…
3 weeks ago
Sabine Hossenfelder: More Exposed Than Ever! (Racism Edition)
Sabine is back! Your favorite salty German anti-science propaganda peddling fraud is in the spotlight again. This time, she's not just badmouthing ac…
3 weeks ago
Wittig Reaction
Don't say it like Wittig, say it like Vittig. All the cool kids are doing it. Triphenylphosphine? Ylides? Can this get any cooler? Let's use Wittig r…
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Avi Loeb is a Fraud Now
Avi Loeb is a Harvard astronomer turned pseudoscience-peddling fraud. Since 2017 he's been spewing horseshit about how everything is aliens when it d…
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Ancient India Part 3: The Maurya Empire (300 – 200 BCE)
The Mauryan empire, founded by Chandragupta Maurya, was the first to encompass nearly the entire Indian subcontinent. How did it form and evolve? Who…
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Passive Voice in the Perfect System
We've learned about using the passive voice in the present system, so now let's do the same for the perfect system. This means applying the passive v…
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E2 Reaction
Enough with substitutions, let's look at eliminations. Bring on the pi bonds! The E2 reaction is a very common one that we will have to understand in…
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Avian Diversity
Now that we understand the form and function of birds, let get a sense of their diversity. There are so many kinds of birds! Parrots, penguins, chick…
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Friedel-Crafts Alkylation
How do you attach alkyl groups to benzene rings? The Friedel-Crafts reaction is one way. This is one of the Electrophilic Aromatic substitutions we w…
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