A physicist facing Chemistry

Uff! When I, a physicist, write about Chemistry, I remember the deep and wide abyss that separates two specialization areas...! Today I finished one of these texts, about a new electroanalytical detector – the kind of thing that you find inside, say, a commercial sensor of glucose in the blood – built by Brazilian researchers in Campinas. I must say that a page from the Electrochemical Encyclopedia with some basic information was very helpful to me. Maybe it is for you too, if you are interested in such matters. If you are really interested, try the original article. Well, I had fun!

Patagonian nature!

I travelled to the south of Argentina and Chile this year – Tierra del Fuego and Torres del Paine, at the extreme South. Mário Sérgio Teixeira de Freitas, a physicist and astronmer that was with me, put many photos about nature in his site. It has explanations about atmospheric phenomena, biology and so on. Unhappily, he is having problems with the software and at this moment some images don’t appear (but some do in the Portuguese version). Patagonia (the name of the whole region) has an amazing nature. You can also see his very interesting images and comments about other trips.

Science writing in the web

Some sites about science writing. The International Science Writers Association (ISWA) is the oldest one (1967). It is behind the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), instituted in a meeting in Brazil in 2002, that has online courses, a list of member associations around the whole world, links to publications like Science in Africa and so on. In Brazil, we have the Associação Brasileira de Jornalismo Científico (ABJC); see also Comtexto’s portal. The Science and Development Network (Scidev) has sections about science communications dedicated to each part of the world. Good wading!