Monthly archives: February, 2013

Cough syrup

My MD friends tell me there’s no effective cough medication on the market. There are OTC and prescription medicines, but none of them have been proven to really work. That doesn’t mean that they won’t give you some level of subjective relief, but they’re not like asprin or pseudoephedrine (e.g., regular Sudafed)*.

We used to…



Imaging deeper with 3p

One of the factors that limits the depth at which one can image brain tissue in vivo with two-photon imaging is out-of-plane fluorescence. Although the excitation falls off as the square of the distance from the focal…



Converting miles to km with Fibonacci

Previously on Labrigger: Street fighting mathematics

And on that topic, and this is something the runners among us might appreciate, the Fibonacci sequence can be used to easily convert miles to kms.

Take two consecutive Fibonacci numbers,…



Going back to Cali

No. I don’t think so.
Anyways, CaliCode is a resource for population calcium imaging. It covers topics from inferring action potential trains from imaging data (hat tip to JV), to image processing and topical papers….



Methods of Mayhem

I’ve seen this line in a methods section before:
“Experiments were carried out at room temperature (19-29 degrees C).”

Which means: “Our lab is in a building with no A/C and poor heating.”

For more,…