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 properties…
If you’re like most people, you can get the vast majority of your holiday shopping done at Edmund Optics. They’re having a Cyber Monday sale this Monday, November 26th. Use code Cyber12 at checkout.
Here’s the deal,…
There will probably always be a need for metrics like impact factor so that non-experts can estimate the significance of a scientist’s publications. These metrics are problematic, as we all know.
Interestingly, the relationship between an article’s…
If you like Python, want to analyze data online, and are interested in a standardized environment that can be easily shared, read on:
Continuum Analytics is offering a new beta: Wakari. You can…
Inventables is a web retailer with a decent site that makes it easy to find raw materials and interesting components. E.g., stretch-sensing rubber and conductive velcro.
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If you’ve been waiting to jump on the GECI bandwagon, you just ran out of excuses.
GCaMP6, a legitimate breakthrough, is now available at Addgene.
Hat tip to ybot.
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A sense of scale can be valuable. Here are the 2012 Research & Development budgets of several tech companies and pharmaceutical companies compared to approximate annual disbursements from the Wellcome Trust and the…
Figshare is an online database for storing figures, data, and papers. It’s been around for a while, but recently its really been taking off.
–You can post images, or entire paper PDFs. Also datasets.
–It’s…
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…
Post publication peer review has yet to really take off, but Labrigger hopes it does. One of the newest sites is PubPeer.
PubPeer does it right, allowing for anonymity. This is important in order…
Sometimes it’s possible to use aftermarket software (or firmware) to make consumer products function for lab applications. In this post, I’ll cover some software for iOS cameras and Canon cameras that add functions useful…
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…
Hubbian is an alternative interface for browsing the abstracts for the upcoming Society for Neuroscience meeting. It tracks abstracts views and has an interface for comments and voting. It’s a product of …
Coax BNC cables come in two flavors, 50 ohm and 75 ohm. For experimental rigs (PMTs, DAQs, amplifiers), always buy 50 ohm cables. The 75 ohm versions are for…
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