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Dogs Teaching Chemistry

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Video of the Week #69 November 15th, 2012: From:Hard Science is Going to the Dogs by Joanne Manaster at PsiVid. Source:snuggliepuppy on YouTube The most informative and adorable science video to come out this week asks us to "sit" and "stay" and "learn" chemistry as two well-trained dogs, Paige and Dexter, help us understand ionic, covalent and polar covalent chemical bonds.