The Ten Most Disturbing Scientific Discoveries. Famous Scientists - Revolutionaries Visionaries Futurists. Science Humor Webring - history. [ Visit the ring | Join the ring | Nominate a site for the ring | Report problems with the ring | Information for ring members] [The beginning] [1999 till August 2000] [Yahoo! Webring integration] [Split rings] The Beginning [ Prehistory | Creation | The first three months ] This page describes how I created the Science Humor webring, how I tried to get people to join the ring and what the results of those action were. The prehistory of the Science Humor Webring As usually the history of a ring starts with a website, in this case my Science Jokes list, which has its own history. This story starts with me travelling around a science fiction ring, moving to the list of sites and accidently selecting the homepage of Webring.org.
Looking under science did not give me anything, under humor were so many rings that I gave up, but webring also has a search engine and that found me a Fun Science ring. So, my site did not fit any ring. The next day, I had a reason to make a ring. The search engines. Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names. Arsole Yes, believe it or not, there is actually a molecule called Arsole... and it's a ring! It is the arsenic equivalent of pyrrole, and although it is rarely found in its pure form, it is occasionally seen as a sidegroup in the form of organic arsolyls. For more information, see the paper with probably the best title of any scientific paper I've ever come across: "Studies on the Chemistry of the Arsoles", G. Markl and H. Hauptmann, J. Thanks to Neil Brookes, Nicholas Welham, Andy Shipway, Lloyd Evans, Peter Sims, John Perkins, Bob Buntrock and Ben Mills for some of the info and details about these molecules.