Monthly Archives: June 2008

When a PhD student goes out and buys a guitar from a pawn shop at lunchtime, comes back and starts playing the blues in the lab — someone, somewhere, is doing something wrong.

Ooh, shiny. Nature Methods have a special issue on Single Molecule Analysis. Strikingly, all articles in this issue are free (Yay! Free beer!) until the end of this month. Don’t FRET, there’s enough to go around. …tumbleweed…

It’s funny how everyone who has seen the Sharpie pens (and figured out how they work…) adores them. We scientists have simple tastes and are suckers for free pens. Thanks Corie 🙂

Over at the Lablit fora there is a discussion on the language of creativity. The conversation, um, evolved somewhat and got to talking about online vs down the pub conversation. Someone said I just feel that an online discussion is … Continue reading →