rickyconnolly
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I am a lowly bioreaction engineer from Ireland.
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Comment · 13 years ago
Dude in article pic looks like he's an expert on mushrooms
Comment · 13 years ago
Yes, Fritz Haber is pretty much single-handedly responsible for starting the chemical weapons race that ravaged soldiers and citizens alike during the great war.
Edit: Although Victor Grignard, on the Allied side, deserves a fair scoop of the blame as well.
Comment · 13 years ago
And a PDF of the manual itself, if you want to try your hand at reading German printed in tightly-spaced Fraktur:
http://ia700306.us.archive.org/16/items/OrganisationsbuchNSD...
Comment · 13 years ago
Now I am completely freaked out. I could have no brain and not even know it!
Comment · 13 years ago
+1. Since my ISP blocked TPB, I've moved to kickass.to
Comment · 13 years ago
3D printing is rather useful in the research lab. For example, most biological research labs will have a piece of kit called an electrophoresis chamber. This is essentially a plastic, watertight box with two wire electrodes inside. These chambers will cost upwards of 800 dollars.
I drew up plans for my own electrophoresis chamber in Sketchup, uploaded it to Shapeways (https://www.shapeways.com/model/1240729/sds-page-tank-v6.htm...), and got it printed and sent to me for less than 70 bucks. Wiring it up cost less than a dollar.
By the way, does anybody know of similar services that are even less expensive? Shapeways seem to specialize in making little trinkets and gadgets, so I suspect my rather large, bulky box cost even more than it needed to.
Comment · 13 years ago
Buy one of those stickers and nobody will ever have to know!
Comment · 13 years ago
You can find the 'golden' ratio, as well as any other ratio you fancy, within any complex dataset, such as the waveforms of an audio file or the spirals on a sea shell. The golden ratio meme is like numerology, once you know what it is, you will see it pop up everywhere.
Comment · 13 years ago
If anything, it affects us less. All the fake tan and glitter make us nigh-impermeable to the elements
Comment · 13 years ago
You either die a hero...
http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgfwAzAgIBhwHtAV7/AAAB7QFeAc...
Comment · 13 years ago
>Now I've written the whole thing: for Christ's sake give me a drink.
Equally as likely to be uttered by a modern-day graduate student on the Nth draft of his presentation.
Comment · 13 years ago
This submission deserves more attention that it is getting!