Kent Harrington
Kent is a videographer and professional storyteller. He regularly blogs for AIChE on ChEnected. See his latest posts below. You can also follow Kent on twitter @harringtonkent.
ChEnected contributions
Retired ChemE, Successful Life-Long Investor, Charles Kaufman, 97, Leaves $50 Million to Encourage Scientific Research
Tonight: Nova's New Series Explores Breakthroughs in Materials Science
In Making Stuff, NOVA's new four-part series, technology reporter David Pogue takes viewers on a tour of scientific innovations that are ushering in a new generation of materials.
Trends: Renewables Catch Up with Nuclear; Incandescents Dim; Kodachrome, a Memory
Chemist Martyn Poliakoff’s Mad-Scientist, Big Hair and His Nano-Sized Birthday Present
It's Chemistry Professor Martyn Poliakoff's birthday and his friends and colleagues at the University of Nottingham have given him a special gift: the smallest periodic table he's ever seen. And possibly the world's smallest.
Techno-Lust Pt2: Christmas Gifts for the Chemical Engineer Who Has Everything
Ready to dream about the perfect Christmas gift to satisfy your deepest techno-lust fantasies? Feast your eyes on these beauties that are sure to make any design conoisseur's heart beat faster.
Techno-Lust: Christmas Gifts for the Chemical Engineer Who Has Everything Pt. 1
This is an arbitrary list. The only criteria: inciting that giddy feeling when a technological object elegantly solves a problem, wrapped in beautiful design.
Lufthansa's First Scheduled Passenger Biofuel Flight a Milestone for 2nd-Generation Biofuels
Commercial aviation just reached an important milestone. Germany's Lufthansa Airlines has announced they will begin using a biofuel blend for regularly scheduled passenger service starting in April. This six-month trial on Hamburg to Frankfurt flights is part of a long-term study of a 50-50 biofuel blend on flight performance, maintenance and engine life. One caveat: only one of the two engines will use the blend; the other will still rely on pure jet fuel.
Why Gold? A Chemical Engineer Explains How It Handily Beat Out the Other Elements
The Utility Blues: Baby, Where Has All That Sweet Potable Water Gone?
Water stress has just entered the urban-diagnostic-lexicon ("white flight" so last century, "nanny-cams" so last decade, "down market lifestyle drift"--that was a quick y
Canadian Scientists Transform Human Skin Cells Directly Into Blood Cells
According to a study published in the journal Nature, stem cell researcher Mick Bhatia and his colleagues at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, have turned human skin cells directly into blood cells for the first time—without first passing through a middle, stem-cell-like state.
