Tobias Baskin's sort-of real time science blog
Please enjoy a slice of pineapple upside-down cake on my behalf (Fig. 1). I solved my calibration issues by inserting the liquid crystal slider upside down. For months, I have been washing up against the rocks of calibration. I need to calibrate the liquid crystal unit before I can measure anything on the confocal fluorescence […]
Today’s title isn’t as catchy as War and Peace despite the alliteration. Oh well. Thanks to our finding a stable power meter, Dean and I were able to calibrate the liquid crystals on the multiphoton microscope. We made a little sculpture surrounding the detector and the rotatable polarizer (Fig. 1). The detector of the power-meter is a […]
During the past week, I enjoyed a holiday. Laura and I were visited by our son, brin, and husband, Poe. Along with generally lolling around, we visited, among other places, Winterbourne Gardens, the Pen Museum, and Coventry cathedral. Streamed Dr Who. Good times all around. But yesterday (Saturday), I cycled into the lab to check […]
I have progressed since the previous post two weeks ago, but to label the progress baby steps would be to exaggerate. Two weeks have elapsed since that post because last Sunday (aka post day) I was in Glasgow. I had been invited to give a seminar by Mike Blatt at Glasgow University. Laura and I went up […]