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Canine chemistry: Dogs teach science
In a new viral video, two dogs help humans bone up on basic chemistry.
Wed, Nov 14 2012 at 4:06 PM

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Training dogs is already a lot of work, but chemist Lauren Girard has taken it a step further: Using hula hoops, rope toys and a video camera, she's training her dogs to train people about chemistry. As she explains on YouTube, "I am a chemist and my greatest hobby is to train my dogs ... why not combine the two?!"
 
In the video below, Girard's dogs help her explain chemical bonds, the forces that link atoms together. If only all chemistry teachers had this much charisma:
 
 
 
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withdrawnfranid Apr 03 2013 at 11:25 AM

Thanks Peter for those links there.

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Peter Apps Nov 21 2012 at 2:36 AM
Chemistry can also give back to the dogs - the Paul G Allen Family Foundation Laboratory for Wildlife Chemistry at the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust is establishing radical new ways of keeping African wild dogs away from livestock to reduce fatal human-wildlife conflict. Check out; http://www.bpctrust.org/bioboundary-project.asp , and http://www.bioquicknews.com/node/956 which gives a summary of the latest results on the chemical composition of the African wild dog scents, which will form
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the basis of the artificial scent marks that will be used to build the BioBoundary. The detailed scientific paper can be found at http://www.springerlink.com/content/q25612243661l211/ . Peter Apps
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