Chemistry 409 - Chemistry & Society (UNH Durham)

First you had an assignment.  Then you came to class. 

Background: resources used for the assignment

1. Your search resource of choice (ex. Bing.com, from Microsoft, or Google.com, which is the U.S. Google site)

2. A comparator search resource:

• https://www.science.gov (Gateway to U.S. Federal Science)
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ (PubMed Central, an archive of biomedical and life sciences research courtesy of the U.S. National Institutes of Health\
• https://www.google.com.au/ (Google Australia)
• https://www.google.co.za/ (Google South Africa)
• https://www.google.co.uk/ (Google United Kingdom)

3.  Your brain (the most important part)                                                   Gross, L. (2008)   

                                                                                                                 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060164.g001

In class: site observations

Dihydrogen monoxide (DHMO) website:  http://dhmo.org/              

Evaluation, characterization:  what factors do you look for?

Additional information:  when it is appropriate to fact-check, use a trusted provider and a reference source (or two)

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