ANTHONY TOOLE. SCIENCE.
More than sixty articles and book reviews published. Most of these are concerned with Chemistry, but a significant number are informed by the other sciences, geology, physics and biology.
Regular contributor of articles to Sherkin Comment
(Sherkin Island Marine Station), and online at Dogmanet.org
Several book reviews published for Education in Chemistry
(Royal Society of Chemistry) and Princeton University Press.
Multiple articles published in New Scientist, Times
Educational Supplement.
Single features in School Science Review, Scottish
Memories, Ireland of the Welcomes, The Northumbrian.
Selected features.
Historical Matter. (Times Educational Supplement 1997) The importance of the history of Science in Education as illustrated by the history of Chemistry. (Read)
Physics and Chemistry of the Highlands. (Scottish Memories 1997) Some places in the Scottish Highlands that have played an important part in the development of Science. (Read)
H2O, H2O Everywhere. (Sherkin Comment 1992; Dogmanet.org 2006) Remarkable facts about the chemistry of water that are crucial to the existence and maintenance of life on Earth. (Read)
Molecules of the Left and Right. (Sherkin Comment 1999; Dogmanet.org 2006) Mirror-image molecules and how their handedness affects behaviour. (Read)
Colours of the Countryside. (Sherkin Comment 2001) The chemicals that are responsible for the colours of vegetation in spring, summer and autumn. (Read)
Cinderella elements. (Sherkin Comment 2001) Some of the little known elements that have common, everyday uses. (Read)
Of Scientific Progress and Dead Theories. (Education in Chemistry 2000) The importance of understanding the limitations of Scientific Theory. (Read)
Ragworms Unlimited. (The Northumbrian 2001) Ragworm farming in Northumberland a research project that became a commercial enterprise. (Read)
Have Humans Forestalled an Ice Age? (Dogmanet.org 2005) Book review Plows, Plagues and Petroleum by William F. Ruddiman (Princeton University Press) The effects of human activities, such as agriculture, on global climate during the past 8000 years. (Read)
Evolution and Religion. (Dogmanet.org 2006) A view from both sides of the debate. (Read)