It’s amazing what you can buy off the internet these days.
About Jenny
By day: cell biologist at UCL. By night: novelist, broadcaster, science writer, sci-lit-art pundit, blogger and Editor of LabLit.com. I blog about my life in science, not the facts and figures.
Pathetic. For those prices I’d expect a weak nuclear force with extra Z0 bosons thrown in.
They were having a sale on magnetism but I didn’t find it to be very attractive.
Weirdly, when I Google for van der waals forces, I don’t get any adverts for Amazon masquerading as hits. Perhaps it’s because I haven’t bought anything from them for ages after I discovered they were registering all their British (and I guess other EU) sales in Luxembourg to avoid paying tax in this country. This is how The Guardian describes what they did:
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/04/amazon-fulfilment-less-tax-uk-activities
They were having a sale on magnetism but I didn’t find it to be very attractive.
Why? Did they have a monopole-y?
This biologist is now stumped. I just twigged it. And now I think it’s time to leaf.