{"id":1980,"date":"2012-07-17T17:36:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T16:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2012-07-17T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T16:36:44","slug":"in-which-we-welcome-a-new-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2012\/07\/17\/in-which-we-welcome-a-new-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"In which we welcome a new friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing like the joy of finally getting a piece of lab equipment that you desperately need.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lablit\/7591132172\/\" title=\"Crate by LabLit, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7136\/7591132172_e3443faec7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Crate\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, so it was fun messing around with the Poor Man&#8217;s Shaking Incubator (see the exclusive video of the prototype in action <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2012\/04\/13\/in-which-necessitys-a-mofo\/\">here<\/a>). But ultimately it proved unreliable, and I had to abandon that strategy.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t really hold your head up amongst serious microbiologists, though, if you can&#8217;t culture your bad-assed bugs in broth. There are things we do that require exponentially doubling bacteria, and for this application, a Petri dish full of agar just doesn&#8217;t cut it.<\/p>\n<p>But we managed to scrape together the cash for this beautiful piece of kit &#8211; and isn&#8217;t there just something magical about a piece of newly-arrived apparatus peeking out of its packing crate?<\/p>\n<p>Welcome, little guy. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll fit right in here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing like the joy of finally getting a piece of lab equipment that you desperately need. OK, so it was fun messing around with the Poor Man&#8217;s Shaking Incubator (see the exclusive video of the prototype in action &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/2012\/07\/17\/in-which-we-welcome-a-new-friend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-profession-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/mindthegap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}