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Two cheers for the towel doofus! Dec 10, 2017
In which illustrates the painful truism that an experiment working the first time takes a long time to work well again.
Tobias Baskin's sort-of real time science blog
In which illustrates the painful truism that an experiment working the first time takes a long time to work well again.
In which the simplest things go wrong…
In which the story is told of a fallen plate.
A discovery is made and another circumstance questioned
In which the curse of toxic towel is revealed.
Where adventures in maize root kinetics begin.
In which the passing of segments is noted and not really lamented
In which for a change an assumption is confirmed.
In which I regale the reader with accounts of the preparations needed for my next trip to the synchrotron.
In which the ins and outs of measuring root elongation and diameter are carefully described.