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All I Really Needed to Know About Chemistry I Learned in High School (with Apologies to Robert Fulghum)

(This is the transcript of the Keynote talk I gave to the York College (PA) Chemistry Industry Advisory Council on April 3, 2025.) (It's a lot more interesting with the slide show playing behind me.)  The first thing I will say is, there are a lot of people here in the room who probably don't get that reference. You're probably all born post-1990 because Robert Fulton wrote a best-selling book back in the 80s called "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten." Yes, exactly. It had some great points of wisdom in it, such as share everything, play fair, don't hit people, put things back where you found them, clean up your own mess, don't take things that aren't yours, say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. These are all good things that we should all know and take to heart. They work really well going forward in our lives and would really help us make a much more fun society to be part of. By the way, these pictures you see up here have ...

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