Day 2 Of Our Mushroom Lab: Running Our Sample Through A DEAE-Sepharose column

Rhodamine 6G dissolving.

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The flowerhat jellies eat live fish, which aquarists deliver to the brainless beauties using a straw.

#VisitorPicture by @girlymurley #regram #jelly #jellyfish #ocean #animals #closeup #NEAQtentacles #lunchtime #fish #beautiful

Check out the colors on this one!

I tweeted a pun and no one appreciated my humour. And then I got really distracted from my chemistry book because this is an important post and I needed to share it.

Amber Ibarreche

Space For All Species Mural

Charley Harper’s first ever mural ‘Space For All Species’ is located in the John Weld Peck Federal Building at 550 Main St. in downtown Cincinnati. Completed in 1964 the design is comprised of two 18×10½ ft panels that feature over 100 species of North American Animals. The tiles were made by Cambridge Tile Company in Cincinnati, OH. more…

totally stealing this technique

Well how do you dry NMR caps?

It’s Schlier-tastic!!

These are my invisible wonders!  Gas flows and fluid interactions.  Nothing but hot air, metho and acetone, yup, humble old nail polish remover.

The images were captured using a colour indicating z-system schlieren optical array, an open shutter and a flash duration of 125 microseconds.

Irony in the lab

Book recommendation for anyone who has ever spent any time in academia as either a teacher or a student. The Saber-Tooth Curriculum is a 1939 sharp-witted critique of the educational system that hasn’t lost an ounce of relevance in the 77 years since its publication. Its pseudonymous author J. Abner Peddiwell describes a society of cavemen who refuse to update their curriculum of fish-grabbing, horse-clubbing, and tiger-scaring long after the environment around them has changed. The book serves as an excellent argument against the fallacious logic often used in the defense of preserving tradition in academia.

Illustrations taken from the classic edition.