October 3, 2004
Why history majors shouldn't do chemistry
It has nothing to do with ability or aptitude. It has everything to do with vocabulary. I feel distinctly strange writing the following phrase in my lab notebook: "The final solutions should not be intensely colored, and should range from a medium orange to barely orange-tinted." In a chemistry context, this is a fairly straightforward sentence. In a historical context, it's just damn weird.
