are any of you members of 23andMe?

if so, let me know!

if not, ignore me.

Since September i've been working on a project. I have neglected posting about it here because i wanted to really dig in and understand it myself before i felt ready to share or debate.

Basically I want to redefine what we consider to be alive as our reasons for excluding what most consider "inanimate objects" just doesn't make sense to me and I ( Read more... )

The New York Times reports multiple puzzling technical difficulties at the Large Hadron Collider ( Read more... )

Over at Boing Boing they note Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, But Probably Shouldn't.

Hi everybody!
We are thinking of getting an FPLC system for our teaching laboratory so that students can learn how to purify proteins. We've narrowed our choices down to either the Bio-Rad BioLogic LP System or the GE Healthcare's AKTA Explorer . Have any of you used either of these two systems, and if so, what did you think of them? Which ( Read more... )

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For children of all ages.

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So, would it be OK to discuss the TV show Fringe in this community every now and then? Dr Bishop is very quickly becoming my mad scientist role model, and I find that the "science" in the show, while highly questionable, is interesting to speculate about.