Sorry!
6th May 2006
Molecule of the Day will not be seen as scheduled this Saturday, May 6th due to the author’s heartbreaking failure to synthesize soap scum from bar soap and epsom salts, leaving me with nothing to report today. (Nice way to kill an hour and dirty up your kitchen, though). Plus, I have a pound (454g) of epsom salts. What do I do with this? Wait until I’m 80, then take baths in it?
On a sadder note, two days ago was the anniversary of the Kent State Shootings (Wikipedia, Google News), and 8-9 days from now is the anniversary of the Jackson State Shootings (Wikipedia, Google News - not much there for another week or so, of course). We hear less and less about these every year.
It is a bad time of year on college campuses for student activism since it’s finals time for undergrads.
Please take a few minutes to read and think about them (again, or for the first time - I didn’t hear about this in any real way until I was in undergrad). Thirty-six years is way too soon to forget. I wasn’t around for these, so I have no frame of reference. It’s baffling for me to think about. There isn’t anything else worthwhile I can add.
Please remember:
Kent State:
Killed:
Survivors:
- Thomas Mark Grace
- Joseph Lewis
- John Cleary
- Alan Canfora
- Dean Kahler
- Douglas Wrentmore
- James Dennis Russell
- Robert Stamps
- Donald Scott MacKenzie
Jackson State:
Killed:
- Phillip Lafayette Gibbs
- James Earl Green
Survivors:
- Twelve other injured students whose names I can’t find. There is less information online about the Jackson State shootings than the Kent State Shootings, and I don’t have a list, sorry! Please let me know if you know of a list of the injured.
See you tomorrow.