Potions For Muggles

Musings on the CHEM universe: Chemistry, Hogwarts, Education, Magic.

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Are you You?

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Getting a new phone this month meant moving from thumb authentication to face authentication. It seems to work pretty seamlessly when I ...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Overly Efficient

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I was forced to get a new phone; the old one started to precipitously decline and would randomly restart. I’m a creature of habit and I’...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

ADOM Update

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Nine months later, I’m still playing Ancient Domains of Mystery (ADOM). The character I was playing back when I blogged about ADOM did...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Biochem Round 2

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Teaching biochemistry for the second time this past semester was not as time-consuming as the first time two years ago. ...
Thursday, January 8, 2026

Student A.I. use: Fall 2025

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The last two times I taught G-Chem 1, I briefly told students how a generative A.I. such as ChatGPT can be useful and wh...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Out of Book

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In The Most Human Human , Brian Christian muses about his experience playing a “confederate” during the 2009 Loebner priz...
Monday, December 29, 2025

PJ Adventures

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This winter break, I read the first five books of Percy Jackson & the Olympians penned by Rick Riordan. It was one o...
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College chemistry professor who loves learning, teaching and thinking about science, but has apparently no aptitude whatsoever in the magical arts.
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