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Noted rhenium hater and **undefeated** youth soccer coach (total of one game coached). Virginia, USA. He/him.
Noted rhenium hater and **undefeated** youth soccer coach (total of one game coached). Virginia, USA. He/him.
![To Pearson and many other educators, learning how to problem solve is one of the most valuable benefits of a college education. “We teach problem-solving in a more structured form at the undergraduate level so that students can deal with the unstructured problems they’re going to encounter in research and in the workforce,” Pearson says.
He’s begun emphasizing this idea to his students. “You have to make a decision as a student that the process of learning is worth putting aside [generative AI] initially,” he says.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yadufqujydkgilkfmlh6ua56/bafkreiasnqetxiu67r47rz6inloalnm6vckde5nspgguarcjgixdmwb2tq)
![A table of pKa values in water and, in parentheses, DMSO. The section header says "Alcohols" and listed are the following:
HOH 14.0 (31.2)
MeOH 15.5 (27.9)
i-PrOH 16.5 (29.3)
t-BuOH 17.0 (29.4)
c-hex₃COH 24.0
CF₃CH₂OH 12.5 (23.5)
(CF₃)₂CHOH 9.3 (18.2)
C₆H₅OH 9.95 (18.0)
m-O₂NC₆H₄OH 8.4
p-O₂NC₆H₄OH 7.1 (10.8)
p-OMeC₆H₄OH 10.2 (19.1)
2-napthol[sic] (17.1)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:46no7pq74qloji7gmemrc4q4/bafkreicgub7h5mrpvcoq2biqqaphrjexxh3wwzd2kwma75nn5u6qhjw55m)
