Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Possible Topics

While I was looking for possible topics, I came across the site http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/ which has some interesting up-to-date articles concerning every day chemistry. I find the topic of nuclear energy particularly interesting (http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2005/February/Thenuclearsolution.asp). Due to decreasing supplies of fossil fuels and other sources of non-renewable energy, it is important that we find new sources of energy to replace those that will run out. Another possible topic which I will consider researching is the effectiveness of antibacterial soap. There is currently a debate in the scientific community about whether antibacterial soap kills germs any better than normal soap. Additionally, some scientists theorize that antibacterial soap also kills healthy skin cells. Multiple studies each support different sides of this argument. But which is true? More information about this topic can be found at: http://home.howstuffworks.com/question692.htm http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Health/story?id=1213399&page=1 I am also interested in nanotechnology, a

1 comment:

James said...

Very interesting Ricardo. I think that they are both very interesting topics, and either one would be suitable choices for this project. Even though it sounds boring, the debate over regular soap vs. anti-bacterial soap seems very interesting.