Tobias Baskin's sort-of real time science blog
Maestro to the pit; actors to their places; its time to raise the curtain. Sure, that might be happening over at the Crescent Theatre with their latest production, but I am talking about mine: I am ready to collect data. I am ready because of wo breakthroughs that happened in January. OK, the word breakthrough implies fabulous […]
An account of scrubbing the sections, and of sputtering.
In which good vibes and Vibratome vibes are explored.
In which the joy of polarized light microscopy is alloyed by recognizing a blue big blistering blunder
I tell the tale of a preliminary, or pilot, experiment. The ‘sky’ comes in as I spend time looking out the window from my office. Sea too.
In which the week’s progress is recounted and as a bonus I invent a good term for calesthenics with numbers.
A quiet week at Woods Hole.
Blogging returns after a 3 month hiatus with a brief account of what happens to cell walls when cells are ground up.
What do you call a woman who drinks too much? … … A dram queen. OK ok, sorry, couldn’t resist, on with the tales of lab dram. This week, I slipped the traces of the computer and pulled the lab work sleigh, twice. The first heave-ho lasted for about 45 min and was me getting […]
This week, I have been measuring. This sounds as though I have been holding up a ruler to measure how high my plants have grown, or perhaps putting a dozen leaves on a balance. But no, I am using a computer to measure features of images I captured during the summer at MBL. This measuring […]