ANTHONY TOOLE. SCIENCE.

More than a hundred 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 Suite101.com

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)

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