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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,…

The last post on cheap optics reminded me of this 2003 paper where they showed that kitchen grade cellophane acts as a half-wave plate.

It was experimentally verified that an ordinary 25-????m-thick cellophane sheet possesses…

Above, theory.
Below, practice.

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Against middle management’s better judgement, Labrigger shirts are available now. Link to the store.

Just two designs right now. The one above, and the popular Guide…

A flurry of posts on the topic culminated in this from Lars Engstrom:

Turnout at the polls this year was low… but here are the results:

How would you complete this sentence:
using confocal and…

The GCaMP5 paper is out now. The paper looks fantastic. There’s tons of helpful information and impressive demonstrations of its performance in several popular model systems.

But isn’t GCaMP6 the best thing going? Is…

The AP is reporting that

Olympus Corp.’s former president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa admitted guilt Tuesday in a cover-up of massive investment losses

There are also reports that Sony may swoop in with about 0.6 billion…

Safety first, people. srsly
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PeerJ is a new open access journal and their killer feature is that they charge less.

What does this mean for publishing? It means it’s getting cheap fast. PLoS journals charge $1400+ for each…

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