tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12261589.post361928468088266501..comments2023-11-02T05:27:45.871-04:00Comments on The Culture of Chemistry: Unfortunate Acronyms: PUSMichellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12617476463347663364noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12261589.post-26566158736819168892012-02-26T05:04:52.914-05:002012-02-26T05:04:52.914-05:00http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersen...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Internet_Mersenne_Prime_Search<br />was so funny i had to post itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12261589.post-30398121436055894002010-03-10T07:39:58.686-05:002010-03-10T07:39:58.686-05:00Given my propensity for tea, I love the idea of th...Given my propensity for tea, I love the idea of the TEAPOT group...Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617476463347663364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12261589.post-26625911492425054642010-02-25T21:10:42.608-05:002010-02-25T21:10:42.608-05:00I met someone from the TEAPOT group at the Dublin ...I met someone from the TEAPOT group at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, before. It's a recursive acronym(!) for "TeaPOT, engineering advancing People Oriented Technology". They spent half the time talking about their research and half the time explaining the recursive acronym.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12261589.post-66940262038277246472010-01-21T05:31:48.267-05:002010-01-21T05:31:48.267-05:00An unfortunate problem with LASER as an acronym is...An unfortunate problem with LASER as an acronym is the miss-spelling as LAZER. Which doesn't work. Google gets 33,900,000 hits for 'Lazer'...Tot. Syn.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02342651026236974817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12261589.post-4613341228612590492009-12-12T18:25:58.062-05:002009-12-12T18:25:58.062-05:00Oh...yes, the bras and the kets always make my stu...Oh...yes, the bras and the kets always make my students grin, too.Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12617476463347663364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12261589.post-12088910261662186972009-12-12T09:09:08.944-05:002009-12-12T09:09:08.944-05:00Albeit not an acronym, Dirac notation always make ...Albeit not an acronym, Dirac notation always make my students smile with all this bras everywhere.<br /><br />PIGS: Portugal, Ireland, Greece & Spain.Rafael R. Pappalardonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12261589.post-70985164067484443022009-12-08T13:48:38.356-05:002009-12-08T13:48:38.356-05:00All my favourites are from the world of NMR experi...All my favourites are from the world of NMR experiments. I particularly remember the following quote from a lecture course on NMR (it was a shared course given by two professors who were well known not to be fond of one another - I left out the names).<br /><br />"Professor X will be able to tell you more about that in his INEPT lectures." <br /><br />Actually it might have been INADEQUATE but either works rather well.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11766515620233424615noreply@blogger.com