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Re: A few questions...
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:11:43 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bruce Hietbrink writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Matt Hein writes:
> > I just told my parents
> > the learning values of Lego (I was kind of fictitious on that),
> > so they decided for letting me buy more parts.
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> Not so fictitious. I am an organic chemist, and a large part of
> understanding how molecules work is understanding their three-dimensional
> structure. When we teach organic we use these plastic models, but I would
> say that in some ways I took to these plastic models so quickly because I
> spent so much time with Legos (and Tinker Toys and Erector Sets) as a kid.
> Here's a picture of a plastic model of a molecule, alongside of a Lego
> version that I made:
> http://www.chem.ucla.edu/~bnh/lab/labchem.html
Well, quite interesting! Yeah, I would agree that
thopse Lego bricks come to great use because their combinations
are endless or as I would say (binary). Anyway, I would
usually make a "learning excuse" to get my hands on more
bricks, and hey! It worked!
> Here is a friend's compendium of photos of chemists and their models
> (including a whole bunch of Nobel laureates, and also me with the Lego model
> linked above):
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dt64/2ndTier/OrganicModels.html
Well, I'm not really into chemistry, due the the fact
that my hobbies are writing, drawing, cooking and running,
but I do find a lot of the stuff in there quite fascinating,
yet intriguing. But, I never have the time to look into
it, since I am so busy pursuing my career as a writer (of
illustrator for my own series of novella).
Anyway, quite interesting stuff. Hope to see
more of it...
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