#dhmo

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohnerism redirects to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_parody#Public_use

In 1997, Nathan Zohner, a 14-year-old student at Eagle Rock Junior High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho, gathered 43 votes to ban the chemical, out of 50 ninth-graders surveyed. Zohner received the first prize at Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair for analysis of the results of his survey. In recognition of his experiment, journalist James K. Glassman coined the term "Zohnerism" to refer to "the use of a true fact to lead a scientifically and mathematically ignorant public to a false conclusion".

[art-of-mathematics]

Beware of dihydrogen monoxide!

[enzocomics]

who would want to drink million-year-old recyled dinosaur urine anyway

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[peepingwonderwall]

Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) bottle

[57-channels-and-nothing-on]

Vi preoccupate tanto del coronavirus ma di questa sostanza, la più mortale esistente in natura e che fa migliaia di morti ogni anno, nessuno ne parla!

Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division provides an international clearinghouse for information on Dihydrogen Monoxide including current re

[attackradish]

WARNING

DHMO is a chemical used in the food industry to add a moist texture to food and to dilute soda syrup. It’s been described as harmless, even healthy, by the media. But don’t be fooled. In 2015, over 360,000 deaths could be traced back to DHMO. DHMO can cause suffocation, delerium, and can even cause healthy cells to burst. Please warn your friends and loved ones, and ask your local fast food joints if they use DHMO in their products.

[gameswithfisch]

So those of you in the Facebook group might remember I talked briefly about doing a Dihydrogen Monoxide project at the beginning of the year to talk about the importance of scientific literacy.  My main issue was that I could find “articles” about dihydrogen monoxide, but none of them were particularly well written- they were just a jumble of random “facts” about DHMO and I wasn’t going to share something that sloppy with my class...

BEHOLD! I re-worked the DHMO facts into a new article designed to terrify students and it’s actually organized and reads (at least more) like an actual article.  

My partner teacher and I are already figuring out how to collaborate on this: breaking down the text since it’s a little above a 5th grade reading level, talking about the text structure, elements of nonfiction; and then using this to have them campaign for a ban of DHMO from our school’s campus (we have a new greenhouse, a garden, and a massive outdoor education area).  I feel like all of this needs to get done in one day though!

I also shared it with my boss who wants to come sit in while we read through this with the school’s social media director... This one’s gonna be a winner.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Everything is chemicals.