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OSU Needs Massive Campus Earthquake Retrofit - Daily Barometer

We always used to joke that the CEOAS building would ironically be the first to pancake.

Great quotes from Dr. Goldfinger in here.

Oregon State University Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Chris Goldfinger, who has studied the Cascadia Subduction Zone since the 1980s, and is one of the foremost scientists on the matter, said he believes that OSU’s infrastructure is not prepared to handle such an event.

“A large number of buildings, many of them on campus, were built long before the knowledge of Cascadia, or plate tectonics for that matter, existed.  There has been little effort to retrofit them, except where major renovation required it.  This means that the town and the campus is packed with collapse-hazard buildings that will likely fail in even a modest earthquake,” Goldfinger said.

Read the article HERE

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The Alchemist: Turning Lead into Gold - Julie Yu

Is it possible to transmute lead into gold? Scientific American explains that “it is indeed possible—all you need is a particle accelerator, a vast supply of energy and an extremely low expectation of how much gold you will end up with.”

For scientists and teachers who don’t have all that, there’s the golden rain experiment. In this video, Exploratorium Senior Scientist Julie Yu mixes lead nitrate Pb(NO3)2 (toxic to your health) with potassium iodide KI to create gold-colored lead iodide PbI2 (also toxic to your health). The short video provides an excellent demonstration of this dangerous experiment.

What’s going on in this ionic bonding demo? A golden rain summary from Compound Chemistry:

This mixing leads to a double displacement reaction, essentially resulting in the metals ‘swapping’ their places in the two compounds, producing lead (II) iodide, and potassium nitrate. It also produces a rapid colour change, as the lead iodide is very insoluble in water at room temperature. When the solutions are added together, they immediately produce a bright yellow precipitate of lead iodide…

These hexagonal crystals take some time to meander gently to the bottom of the flask, giving the reaction mixture a shimmering, glittering effect commonly referred to as a ‘golden rain’.

The effect can last for up to an hour as the crystals fall out of the solution, so it’s a great experiment to instill an awe of chemistry!

There’s more information at both Education in Chemistry and The Home Scientist.

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Carole King's Anti-Trump Song

It has been seven years since musician Carole King has released a new song but that dry spell has finally been broken. The 76-year-old has come out of retirement and taken aim at US President Donald Trump in a reworked version of her 1977 track, ‘One’.

King initially rewrote the song to play at a political fundraiser last month, but then recorded the new version in hope that it would encourage more people to participate actively in the upcoming US election.

The song features a new final verse, which King told the Guardian is “a call to action” ahead of the mid-term elections in the US.

The original lines about being “part of the energy it takes to serve each other” are now sharpened into calls to “come together as one/show ’em how it’s done/at the end of the day, we’ll be able to say/love won”.

“It’s a song about wondering what we can do when we see injustice, and it expresses my long held belief that we — all of us humans — are most effective when we come together as ‘One’,” King explained of the track. “I was inspired to write some new lyrics for the last chorus to reflect my feelings about the 2018 election. And then I wanted to record it.”

The song also features King’s daughters Louise Goffin and Sherry Kondor on backing vocals. 

King — the woman behind songs including ‘(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman’ and ‘You’ve Got a Friend’ — hasn’t written any music since her 2011 Grammy-nominated Christmas album. 

The singer made her debut in 1971, with her album Tapestry, which became an immediate success. In her long, fruitful career, King has written more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists such as Aretha Franklin, The Monkees and The Chiffons. 

Halloween at ServiceNow

Our team jumped into the Experience Organization costume contest for Halloween.  We are all dressed up as avatars, one of our web components in the Now Design System (is that what we're called now?) Library.  We also feature presence icons on the bottom right of the plates.  I am front and center, lol.

We made the front page of the Q-3 EO Newsletter.  :)

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Building a Glitter Firing Saxophone

When five-year-old Benjamin designed his Glitter Firing Saxophone, the team at Kids Invent Stuff rose to the challenge of making it real. In this how-it’s-made video, makers Ruth Amos and Shawn Brown team up to design, print, and assemble the "Roald Dahl-esque" machine. 

You can submit your ideas for crazy inventions to their site, where they might select your idea. 

See it in action below!

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