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I want my Margarita to be NIST traceable
Presenting the Retsch Grindomix Laboratory Knife Mill (blender). For a cool $3,589.73, you can “quickly and efficiently batch process a variety of dry, soft and medium-hard foodstuffs such as fresh...
View Articlei get some strange emails…
Check this one out: Hi Sam, My name is John Foster and I work for a company called Solitaire Creative and we are working with The Johnson Space Center (NASA) and their research arm, Wyle, to promote a...
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kimwipes claim science
Apparently, “science” is a term trademarked by Kimberly Clark: * Trademark of Kimberly Clark I don’t really think that’s fair.
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why are email clients dumb?
Why does Thunderbird not recognize the word “inbox”? It seems to me that it should.
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Snuggie Scientific
Want to not die while working in the lab? Lab coats are okay, but they don’t show off your awesome ass. And the second you need to reach for something, you catch on fire. But now there’s the Snuggie...
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wireless memo book
Finally, the memo-book industry is catching up to the internet age: Weird.
View Articlevolcanoes are your solution to everything
After John Deutch‘s talk this afternoon, one student asked three (!) questions. His third one was: “Why don’t we just take nuclear waste, seal it in some container, then put it at the bottom of the...
View ArticleHg Thermometry
In keeping with green traditions, we’re required to trade out Hg containing thermometers. For those cases where no equivalent alcohol thermometers exist, they supply Hg thermometers that are encased...
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liquid oxygen
Not a good idea: I don’t think putting liquid oxygen on your tongue is so smart. Fortunately, it’s not really liquid O2, it’s just salt water: “The chemical components in Liquid Oxygen are distilled...
View ArticleIT
I think it’s ironic that the IT people at Stanford always call me after I submit a help ticket on the web. Why don’t they just fax me?
View ArticleMcNASA and whale oil
This is the strangest paragraph I’ve read in a while: “But during the 1980s, [NASA] lost much of its old high-quality data. Its early tracking stations recorded satellite data on high-resolution master...
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cleaning-chemicals industry takes on the final frontier…
…invisible stains. Finally, there are cleaners on the market that can clean up stains that are undetectable by any of the human senses. Have you seen that commercial for a toilet-bowl cleaner? They...
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Creatine, a popular sports supplement
Creatine, a small-molecule found naturally in red meat (and biosynthesized in our bodies), is a popular supplement for weight lifters. To understand how it works, one needs to know that ATP (adenosine...
View Articlehow do you read PDFs?
I now have a longer commute, with at least 30 minutes of quality reading time. I don’t really want to carry my laptop everyday, so I’m seeking a better way to read journal articles. I’m not going to...
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dangerous laser pointers
NIST is warning us that some cheapo green laser pointers might be unfiltered and dangerous. Some manufacturers skip installing the IR filter, thus making a laser pointer that has a high-power invisible...
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acs feeds broken?
I was forced to update all my ACS feeds in my RSS reader (Google Reader). None of the ACS feeds I follow had updated for a couple days. I think ACS switched over to Feedburner and their old feeds...
View Articleucsf vs tsa
Some profs at UCSF have concerns about the radiation dose of backscatter scanners, specifically that all the energy is deposited in the skin instead of being spread throughout the entire body. So the...
View Articlef1000
UPDATE2: OK, it turns out that the daily(ish) email isn’t too terrible. I now use it and I’m no longer upset that they don’t have an RSS feed. I correct myself and now fully endorse F1000! Faculty of...
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playstation joystick control on electron microscope
Fancy electron microscope… …uses a game controller to manipulate the internal robots. Ha!
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