I have just commenced my honours year at ANU, under Prof. Rob Stranger. I will be using quantum mechanical computational methods to simulate the behaviour of para-
tert-butylcalix[4]arene niobium(IV), a funky bowl shaped molecule that has an extraordinary ability to grab either end of a nitrogen molecule and make its formidable triple bond
1 significantly weaker
2. This makes it more amenable to useful reactions
3.
I will hopefully get access to the ANU supercomputing facility, a massively parallel system with almost 2000 CPUs and 5.6 terabytes of ram! Of course, you have to wait in queue, you get a limited time for your jobs to complete in, and you have to use a sensible number of processors. i.e. you have to be courteous.
I'm slightly frazzled from a month of working with the Stranger group (well the 4 members thereof who are in town) at a fairly breakneck pace, keeping 12 cores nice and toasty at once with lots of concurrent simulations. Germán copes graciously with my several-times-daily 'does this look reasonable to you?' interruptions/intermissions, which I'm reducing in frequency.
[1] One of the strongest chemical bonds known!
[2] Floriani, C. et al, Stepwise Reduction of Dinitrogen to Nitride Assisted by Niobium Bonded to Oxygen Donor Atoms: The Potential of Reduced Forms of Niobium Calix[4]arene, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 437-438
[3] Discussed here:
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Devious Comments
Send one to all your friends who you think deserve a hug (which, hopefully includes the person who sent it to you)!!
You might send it to your enemies as well!
It'll really make them stop and think!!!
If you don't receive this back, nobody likes you, and they wish you'd stop bugging them!
If you receive this back 1 time, open up! Find more friends, enemies, or enemies pretending to be friends
If you receive this back 2 times, you're off to a good start! (Unless you sent it to yourself! That's cheating!)
If you receive this back 3 times, you're a good friend.
If you receive this back 4 times, you're truly loved as a friend!!
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YOU'VE BEEN HUGGED!
Spread the DA love around! (you can copy and paste this message on their userpage!)
RULES:
1- You can hug the person who hugged you!
2- You -MUST- hug 6 other people, at least!
3- You should hug them in public! Paste it on their user page!
4- Random hugs are perfectly okay! (and sweet)
5- You should most definitely get started hugging right away
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it isn't what we said, it's more of what we do. It isn't that we were there it's more of what we did when we were there. Life is written in word not lived by them.
Friends are the chocolate chips in the cookie of life.
what said that last part again
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REESES FOR BREAKFAST @w@
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I give it an 8/10
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WAKE UP AND GIVE A SHIT!
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You can at least pretend you give a shit!
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You never were, and never will be!!
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greetings!!!
i dig your more disturbing deviations e.g. dybbuk, paperclip.
those are delishuss.
hope there's more of that coming soon..
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cogito ergo doleo
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sneedd
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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers - sagan
You have a really cool gallery here. Congrats on the daily deviation, too.
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It's art because you don't understand it!
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[ Deviations | Watch | Shafix ]
"Naraku301 says:
I have to go eat myself."
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we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers - sagan
Thank you for the reciprocated watch!
I really appreciate it!
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Digital Expressionism.
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"Has the world made you? Have you made the world? These are strange times I ask you..."
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I found you while lurking around ConceptArt
Your gallery is really impressive!
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