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Off the Mark

December's cartoon

(This is reprinted from the December 2005 issue of Chem 13 News. Previously it was called Rosengarten’s garden.) Author: Mark Rosengarten, Washington High School, Washingtonville, New York

Aluminum and Copper cartoon

Chemically-dependent cartoon Author: Richard M Furlough

Celebrating relationship humour from the 2000s

We decided to dig out some of Richard Furlough’s cartoons from the 2000s. We selected these dating and relationship chemical cartoons with Valentine’s Day in mind.

Precipitation caper

A cartoon of three test tubes in a suspect line-up. Another test tube is a witness (NaCl) and he identifies test tube with lead(II) nitrate as the one precipitating the whole thing.

Dimethyl chicken wire

Fun cartoon from the 1960s

Santa and chemistry sets

How does Santa feel about chemistry sets?

Santa parent cartoon

Cute little Christmas cartoon but you have to know your elements...

Science fair

A cute twist on science fairs...

Your own peril

Would you put your head down?

Fascinating chemistry

Creative chemistry...

Too familiar with safety rules

Can safety be too familar?

Name this compound for Easter

Can you name this Easter compound?

Goldilocks and thermodynamics

Goldilocks and chemistry

#clickbait syllabus

If you spend any time on social media sites or anywhere on the internet, you will have encountered “click bait”. Click bait is the internet slang term for online media or news content with sensationalist headlines. The CBC radio show “As it happens” did a short interview with Laura Seay, a Texas assistant professor who hit on an idea: “what if she wrote her syllabus in the style of click-bait internet headlines?” Her #clickbaitsyllabus went viral.

Comparing the SN1 and SN2 Reactions

Cat teaching organic chemistry reactions...

Making an ICE table

Prashanth Velayudhan, 2nd year Medicinal Chemistry student at the University of Waterloo submitted this cartoon.

Spooky chemistry cookies

Spooky and yummy periodic table

Boil Slaw cartoon

Chemically-dependent by Richard M. Furlough

Significant digit cartoon

The cartoon was taken with permission from www.lefthandedtoons.com. The cartoons are drawn with the left-hand although both website cartoonists are right-handed. There are over 1,500 different cartoons at this website.

Sardonic Salad cartoon

This great little cartoon is courtesy of Sardonic Salad.

Joy of Tech Cartoon

Geek mediation session...

Dogs teaching chemistry

I am a chemist by profession and I have been making YouTube videos of my dogs as long as I've had them in my life. Some videos have become more popular than others, but nothing to the extent of our chemistry video.

Timely science humour

A Higgs boson walks into a [Catholic] church and the priest says...

Ode to Mendeleev

A man named Mendeleev, Dimitri Set his mind to work so completely, He invented a table With which he was able To organize elements neatly.