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Party Like It’s 2011
Posted by Rachel Pepling on January 5, 2009 in Chemistry is Everywhere
We’ve been talking quite a bit around here about chemistry’s less-than-desirable reputation within advertising campaigns. But it looks like chemistry will finally get some positive limelight. We learned last week that the UN declared 2011 as the International Year of Chemistry. So with two years to plan, how do you envision welcoming in 2011? I’m thinking that instead of the usual crystal-studded ball, we should drop a ginormous buckyball over Times Square.
6 Comments on Party Like It’s 2011
By Neil Gussman on January 5, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I think we should hang a ginormous net with every kind of sports ball inside–baseball, soccer ball, football, tennis ball, field hockey, ping pong, . . . Then at 10 minutes after midnight when everyone starts to wonder what we are going to do with that net full of sports equipment what’s that got to do with the Year of Chemistry, we have the most recent winner of the Ig-Nobel in chemistry say, “WITHOUT CHEMISTRY YOU GOT NO . . . “
By Dave Gibboni on January 9, 2009 at 9:35 am
That big ball dropping on Times Square is already a buckyball! There’s one on display at the Times Sq Visitor Center.
By Rachel Pepling on January 9, 2009 at 9:56 am
@Dave: I was envisioning more of a ball-and-stick structure rather than a solid geodesic dome to make it clear to the general public.
By Chemjobber on January 9, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I suggest combining Rachel’s buckyball idea with those weird Carnival Cruiseline commercials. If we had the world’s largest buckyball that breaks open and spills out, oh, I don’t know, candy and ethanol, then we’d have a real devotion to chemistry amongst the public.
By JJ on January 16, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Wow – 2012!
I might even be hired again. I hope I can still get a job called “chemist” in 2012.
By Elements Abound In D.C. at C&ENtral Science on January 28, 2010 at 1:06 pm
[...] all the science that goes on here. Maybe we can convince some towns to change their names for the International Year of Chemistry 2011? I’m thinking “Radon, District of Columbia” has a nice ring to it (especially as [...]
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