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| 04:33pm 13/07/2009 |
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Currently finishing up a 7 minute hold on T-minus 20 minutes.
Watch it live here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
ETA: There is a 45 min hold at T-minus 9 min.
ETA #2: Launch was scrubbed. Again. Blar. :-P |
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| 06:51pm 11/07/2009 |
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Hi,everyone!
Here are my artworks as cards. You can buy them on redbubble.com (click on the image)
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| my head is a weird place (Magic Kingdom Reject) |
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| 10:07am 10/07/2009 |
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mood:  artistic
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K: "Would a fish stay out of water?"
T: "You're not a fish."
K: "You know what I mean!"
T: "No, really. You're some kinda weird... trilobite creature. It's pretty disgusting, actually."
*~*~*
The rejection is a sign, he tells her. Stay here, it's better anyway.
"Better for you," she says.
"Yeah, and? You're not that much different."
She looks at the engine. Not that much. Not that much is the difference between working and falls apart.
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She goes back again and again. One time scared, one time defiant, one time sad. Third time is the charm.
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K: "Give me what I want, and you'll be safe."
Q: "What do you want, then? Passage into my realm? I promise it won't be easy if you take it."
K: "No. Not now. That's not enough."
Q: "What then?"
K: "Safe passage. In, and out. For all my kind. For everyone. And... I'll come back, to take you up on that first offer, someday."
Q: "Listen, child, listen - that's only half a bargain. Everyone has to give something up."
K: "Even the queen?" |
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| Ethics review boards? |
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| 09:48am 07/07/2009 |
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Anybody here had to get past an institutional ethics review board for an experiment? I'm writing a sci-fi/fantasy short story that involves human subject research and I'd like to see some documents people have to produce to get past ethics review boards. It doesn't have to be humans, experimenting on mice is fine too. I'm looking for things like forms that you fill out for the board, forms that you create for the subjects to give informed consent, and justification papers that you submit to accompany the paperwork. It doesn't have to have been successful. I'd also be interested in seeing their response, but this is less crucial to my story (I'd probably only include it if I lengthened the story to no longer be short, or if I did a sequel).
My own background is astronomy, so I've never had to deal with an ethics review board. I'll be looking for things such as what information is included in the forms, and whether the tone of papers submitted to ethics review boards is different from the tone of peer-reviewed astronomy papers. (For example, is it written as if to a peer who is also an expert in the subject, or is it written as if to a politician?)
If you're willing to show me such documents but don't want it public, you can email me at zandperl-AT-gmail-DOT-com. If you're willing to just describe such things, that'd be great too!
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| Rotational Spectroscopy Software |
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| 12:40pm 06/07/2009 |
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Hello all.
I'm looking into working with theoretical rotational spectroscopy, and was wondering if anyone here might be able to recommend some good software which might help. Seeing as I've only really worked with electronic excitation spectra up until now, I'm not entirely sure where to start! Are there any pieces of ab initio software out there, which could take a molecular structure (and/or parameters like dipole moment and principal axes) as an input and calculate a full rotational spectrum?
Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions you can give! |
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| 12:44am 06/07/2009 |
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music: like someone took a knife, and drove it deep into my heart
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| Finding the degree of error |
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| 07:25pm 05/07/2009 |
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Hello. I am a college student studying in BS Medical Technology. Right now, I am busy with my thesis, "Effects of the over-anticoagulated blood based on amylase and acid phosphatase determination". One of my objectives will be finding the degree of error. This will be based on the values obtained from the tests of a normal amount anticoagulated blood and an over anticoagulated blood. But I am hardly good at statistical computation. Will you suggest a formula to get me by this problem? |
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| Tip Boxes |
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| 12:04pm 04/07/2009 |
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Hey everyone =)
So, my academic institution of choice has a "free things!" area, where labs can put old equipment/etc and it essentially becomes fair game for anyone to take. Usually it's junk, but today when I walked by there were a bunch of empty tip boxes - Sorenson Multiguard Barrier Tips, to be exact. Catalog #15020T. The boxes are a slightly greyish blue with a clear lid
My lab buys tips in bulk in huge bags, and we then manually put the tips into boxes, autoclave, and voila (Exceptions to this include RNA work, but for day to day lab stuff, this is how it goes). Seeing as each person is responsible for their own tips, and being the newest person in the lab, I have the shittiest (and fewest) tip boxes. So I scooped up a bunch, figuring I would try them out next week to make sure the tips we order fit properly and come out easily, and then I'd be set.
Of course I was also planning to check that they were autoclavable. There's no information about it on the Sorenson website (http://www.sorbio.com) but I'm assuming they wouldn't be advertising it because they'd rather you buy an entire new box of tips. I've emailed the tech support, but no response yet, so I'm hoping someone here has personal experience?
And, to have a discussion going, how does your lab buy tips? Pre-racked? Already racked and in boxes? Or do you buy them in big bags? My old lab had a guy come in once a week to rack/autoclave tips, and it was sort of a communal stash we had going on, but here everyone is responsible for their own. We're switching to pre-racked for our P200 tips, but only because we're getting a deal where it works out cheaper than buying in bulk - everything comes down to the final $... we even do plasmid preps the old-school way without a kit. |
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