Today’s Dinner Lecture of the Day is the “Parasitology Club Fecal Lecture and Lab” at Cornell University, at which “Dr. Araceli Lucio-Forster will give a dinner lecture on the principles of veterinary fecal examinations which will be followed by a practical lab in which students will have the opportunity to perform fecals on their pet’s […]
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Pens, pens, pens for the pensive scientist
Maryn McKenna writes (in The Further Adventures of Germ Girl): Ever wondered which is the best — or the worst — ink to use in your lab notebook? Wonder no more: Colin Purrington has done the work for you. Herewith, his table of inks from 20 pens (plus one pencil), subjected to erasure, heat, and […]
Jethro Tull in or of the lab
Be daring, scientists are told. Here’s one result of that advice: a lab that applied Jethro Tull’s song “Locomotive Breath” to its work, or perhaps the other way around. (Thanks to Ivan Oransky for bringing it to our attention.) The top video stars Roland Houben. The bottom video stars Ian Anderson (who recently did a rather nice […]
When my dog visited Hauser’s lab
Robin Abrahams, our psychology editor, writes in Salon: “What kind of a pet owner voluntarily submits her dog for laboratory experiments? The kind who very much hoped that the scientists would give out bumper stickers that read, “My Dog Is an Honor Student at the Harvard Canine Cognition Lab,” that’s who. Now that the academic […]
Cheer Lab cheer quiz
A simple quiz: How many members of the Cheer Lab are clearly of good cheer? Base your answer purely on the photos here. These are the members of the Cheer Lab — Joseph Cheer’s lab at the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore: The Cheer Lab is dedicated to “elucidating fundamental neural mechanisms underlying […]
“Lab Romance” — la vie en gaga, en lab
“Lab Romance” is a parody of Lady Gaga’s parody “Bad Romance“. For non-scientists, it provides a perhaps-rare look at at the insides of a laboratory and the outsides of some of the people who work in that lab: