I think chemistry is one of those subjects that should be the easiest to teach in a captivating way and yet most school/university level treatments tend to be quite dry. I imagine most of this is due to cost, safety and effort required but one can dream.
Tried a few links and found them broken.
For example, Dunn's book on soap making. Nonetheless, Googled it:
https://www.amazon.com/Scientific-Soapmaking-Chemistry-Cold-...
The lead me to his Caveman Chemistry book on Amazon as well:
https://www.amazon.com/Caveman-Chemistry-Projects-Creation-P...
I think chemistry is one of those subjects that should be the easiest to teach in a captivating way and yet most school/university level treatments tend to be quite dry. I imagine most of this is due to cost, safety and effort required but one can dream.
A chemist once told me the two paths that bring people into chemistry are learning how to blow shit up and how to get high.
But yes, regardless of those two it should be easy to frame it as a magical adventure.
How is it that the new website is uglier than the old one?
From the Stone Tools project page...
>> If you have ever seen the fracture which results when a BB hits a glass window, you have seen the conchoidal fracture.
Wow the instructor sounds extra, but this would’ve been a great course to go through in a summer as a kid. It’d be fun to audit as an adult really.