Chemistry {Cookbook}

Recipes - Tools - Community and Events - References - Inspiration - To do

Dosis sola facit venenum Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)

Recipes

• nootropics
  • check http://aft.benetou.fr/Pratiques/AmeliorationsCognitives
  • consider a non-chemical (thus more self-reliant) way
    • Meditation
  • Cognition
  • application of ObjectsExoBrain#SystematicStudy to the chemistry of the brain and not to a software/hardware combination
  • Wikipedia:Nootropic
  • Wikipedia:Psychoactive drug
  • IleDeserte.net by Guerrique (French)
  • understand how the brain works (overall structure and structure of its component) and how the drug works (structure of the compound)
• cooking
  • Food
  • Distillations Episode 33: Molecular Gastronomy, Chemical Heritage Foundation 2008
  • Wikipedia:Fermentation (biochemistry)
    • Wine
• computation
  • The Chemistry of Computing by Alan Cohen, ExtremeTech 2006
  • First germanium laser by Larry Hardesty, MIT February 2010
  • key concepts Wikipedia:Superconductivity, Wikipedia:Semiconductor, ...

Tools

• Linux4Chemistry maintained by Noel O'Boyle
• Gromacs versatile package to perform molecular dynamics
• Avogadro Free cross-platform molecule editor
• RCSB Protein Data Bank A Resource for Studying Biological Macromolecules
• Fold.it Solve Puzzles for Science
• Chem_xSeer Project by Keywords/Formulae/Name

Community and Events

• Free Fermentology Foundation in Paris
• Practical Chemistry led by Emma Woodley.
• QMC@HOME using Quantum Monte Carlo

References

• Biology to understand the mechanisms involved
• Gardening to leverage those mechanisms
• my reading notes on
  • Cognitive Enhancement discussion in The Ego Tunnel
  • Elegant Solutions with few chemistry tools and concept but mostly focusing on the history of chemistry
  • Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter
• Psychotropic Drugs And The Nature Of Reality by Michael Persinger, 2007
• Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments by Robert Bruce Thompson, O'Reilly Media / Make 2008

Inspiration

• Cognition#LearningNewDomain applied to plant and nootropics

To do

1. bioefficacy
2. Student Tutorials, The ChemCollective (CMU)

Categories

• Chemistry