Mitochondria Is The Powerhouse Of The Cell

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most underappreciated starter

ATTEMPTING TO REPAIR AN INSTRUMENT ON MY OWN

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My window is smarter than yours…

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Maggie Aderin-Pocock was born in London, England on March 9, 1968. She earned a degree in physics and a PhD in mechanical engineering, in spite of her dyslexia, and went on to become a research fellow at the University College London Department of Science and Technology Studies and work on projects such as the James Webb Telescope and the Gemini Observatory. She is currently a presenter on BBC Four’s program The Sky At Night.

Happy birthday, Maggie Aderin-Pocock!

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fun things to do in lab

accidentally crushing a pcr tube when opening it with one hand

dropping… anything. especially an entire box of frozen samples. 

slightly too large gloves and getting them caught as you close tubes

when the magnetic spin bar spins too fast and does the thing

listening to someone else’s forgotten timer go off

“uh… what’s that smell..”

going in for a pipette tip and then overturning the entire box

16 hour time-points

srsly who invented 16 hr time-points

they’re inhumane

labelling rows and rows of 600 ul microcentrifuge tubes by hand

“we’re sorry but this reagent has been back-ordered for 3 months”

listening to the scraping noise of plastic culture flasks on metal shelves

getting your samples stuck in any sort of machine

“i need you to go and catalog every chemical we have”

cleaning cell culture incubators with aerosolized 70% ethanol 

having the fire alarms go off when you’re literally in the middle of something that can not be put down no i will perish in this fire before i forgo this damn experiment!

that sense of pure panic when you realize you miscalculated how much reagent you need

“one of your mice died and its cage mates ate half the body”

So if you’re in the USA and you haven’t gotten your planetary postal stamps, you are missing out, friends.

Today, we helped middle schoolers make glow sticks at Cool Chem @UMN

[Like Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing] I am also besotted with mathematics… I am absolutely struck with the power of mathematics, and that’s why I’m a theoretical physicist. If I want to answer questions, I love that we can all share the mathematical answers. It’s not about me trying to convince you of what I believe or of my perspective. We can all agree that one plus one is two, and we can all make calculations that come out to be the same, whether you’re from India or Pakistan or, you know, Oklahoma.

Magnificent On Being interview with cosmologist and theoretical physicist Janna Levin, who studies black holes, is the author of a bewitching novel about Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing, and has written beautifully about the relationship between genius and madness. (via explore-blog)