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Pics of Enlarger and Dry-side can be found here: Dryside & Enlarger The darkroom is officially operational. Yes yes, you can all touch my hand, it’s ok. No seriously. I got my chemicals early last...
View ArticleLimonene, part 1
We’re starting a new lab in O-Chem this week: Extraction of a Volatile Oil from Orange Peels via Steam Distillation. In layman’s terms: we’re taking the stuff that smells good out of the orange peels...
View ArticleHeroes, a science-geek critique
Ok, I just recently finished catching up on the “Heroes” television series. (Assuming there are no new episodes past the season finale of Chapter 3: Villains). I had originally watched most of the...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Andrew Alexander, Ombudsman at the Washington Post
Subject: Please start double-checking George Will’s facts when he talks about science Body I don’t know if you’ve been following Carl Zimmer’s blog, “The Loom,” and if you haven’t, you may want to read...
View ArticleCaffeine and You
Below is a copy of my term paper written for my Cell Biology course. I wrote it in a slightly less-formal style of scientific journalism, but didn’t spare on the technical details. Feedback, good or...
View ArticleWhy Arsenic-based life is cool, but not revolutionary
If you’ve been on the Internet the past couple days, particularly if you use any social media, you’ve invariably read something about the Arsenic-based life forms discovered in the bottom of Mono Lake...
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