A Chemical That Must Be Banned Now!

[Justin86]

[quote name='jckinsman' post='1645170' date='Sep 2 2008, 03:52 PM']So wait a minute, Can I or can I not drink my Drano???[/quote]
Drano not only contains dihydrogen monoxide, it also is an invention of man-bear-pig to destoy us all.

[quote]if you can't can you at least pet the can like a kitty??? [/quote]
As long as it's done in memory of basement cat.

[mommas_boy]

Thanks, by the way, for the DHMO reminder. I had forgotten about it. Anyway, I'm using it in my classes this week.

[Adrestia]

[quote name='Justin86' post='1645157' date='Sep 2 2008, 01:12 AM']WHY WON'T ANYONE TAKE ME SERIALLY!!![/quote]
I'd prefer to take your cereal than to take you serially, with organic milk please

[Justin86]

Soy milk would make me produce estrogen. I don't like the sound of that.

[Didacus]

I actually presented this at a supervisor's meeting about three or four weeks ago. the superintendant thought it was hilarious!

There was one person in my group (at least) that had to be told the catch or he may have reported it to the safety department. Another guy in my group had to formally research the internet in order to 'get to the bottom of things'.
LOL

[scardella]

[quote name='tgoldson' post='1644494' date='Sep 1 2008, 01:55 PM']I did not know that! I need to read the meds section of my health insurance policy more carefully.

Thanks [i]SuperNurse[/i]! You rock.[/quote]

Hey, my sister claimed that title 5 years ago. I shall defend her honor!

[dominicansoul]

this thread goes over my small pointy head

[scardella]

Umm... plus this dihydrogen monoxide thing has been running around for several years...

[Justin86]

The point will always remain just as important, however. It will also always be "new" to younger generations and makes for an excellent teaching tool.

[mommas_boy]

[quote name='scardella' post='1645365' date='Sep 2 2008, 12:41 PM']Umm... plus this dihydrogen monoxide thing has been running around for several years...[/quote]


[quote name='Justin86' post='1645373' date='Sep 2 2008, 12:52 PM']The point will always remain just as important, however. It will also always be "new" to younger generations and makes for an excellent teaching tool.[/quote]

This sums up my thoughts exactly. My kids have so little science literacy; 2% meet state standards (none exceed). According to my assessments today, my students have little if any exposure to the scientific process. They generally take things at face-value and question little that is presented to them, preferring memorization-regurgitation to actual learning. I am certain that they have never heard of this. I begin the lesson tomorrow (it's a two-day unit), and we'll see how it goes. I'll be breaking students up into groups to examine different aspects of DHMO, and they will make class presentations on the following day.

My lesson today led into it pretty well, we "burned water". In reality, I had spiked the beaker with lighter fluid beforehand. Cheap, I know, but I don't have much. Most students knew that it was impossible to burn water, but suspended their disbelief when I lit the beaker. A few questioned it as I wanted; most had to be prodded heavily to see that something was wrong, and start noticing things like the smell of petrol in the room, or the greasy sheen on the water surface, or that it was impossible to get the water to relight again after it had gone out. In the end, the students concluded that I was a "sneak". I asked them how they felt that their teacher had "lied" to them. One asked how she could trust me on her grades! To which I responded, "That's why you need to keep careful track!" Then I asked them "How is that different from the rest of the world?" and "Who's responsibility is it to double-check for truth?". They got the picture.

The point is is that lessons like these go a long way to create a [b]need[/b] for wholesome skepticism in a population of students who have been so conditioned to take tests that they have lost a sense of what true learning is. Once this skepticism has been introduced, it is much easier to work with students to develop a formalized system of scientific inquiry.

My one single concern is that I don't want students to get the wrong idea and think that they [b]can't[/b] trust [i]me[/i], rather than that they can't trust everything that they hear. I will just have to be very careful, and very clear, here.

Stepping down from my soapbox, now. I was mostly just decompressing from today ...

[homeschoolmom]

[img]http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h320/maddyn99/DihydrogenMonoxide.gif[/img]

[mommas_boy]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' post='1645624' date='Sep 2 2008, 05:42 PM'][img]http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h320/maddyn99/DihydrogenMonoxide.gif[/img][/quote]

Thanks!

[Adrestia]

[quote name='Justin86' post='1645248' date='Sep 2 2008, 09:02 AM']Soy milk would make me produce estrogen. I don't like the sound of that. [/quote]
Organic milk is not soy milk.


As far as milk goes, "organic" means that the cows were not given antibiotics or hormones. Organic milk also happens to taste better than hormone/antibiotic milk. I'm not an organic food freak at all - I usually just buy what's on sale - but organic milk is pretty awesome.


As far as soy products go, only some soy isolates are estrogenic. They don't make you produce estrogen, they act like estrogen... except 100,000 times weaker. You would have to eat [i]a lot[/i] of soy to feel the effects. That being said, some vegetarians do eat that much soy. They really shouldn't.

[Adrestia]

(p.s. you don't need 8 glasses of water a day)

[jckinsman]

[quote name='Justin86' post='1645204' date='Sep 2 2008, 06:04 AM']Drano not only contains dihydrogen monoxide, it also is an invention of man-bear-pig to destoy us all.


As long as it's done in memory of basement cat.[/quote]
Don't you mean basement "kitty" ?