My back hurts. And my head hurts. And the Mayo Clinic’s pictures of melanoma look like regular moles. And Twitter keeps crashing on my iPhone. But none of those things matter because I’ll be snuggling with Baller tonight. Oh Baller, everything becomes irrelevant when I look into your pretty face.
Trust Issues
My work place gets out of control sometimes. The PI who works with radioactivity is a liar and a consistent violator of state regulations. The Chairman and his minions like to sweep everything under the rug and refuse to listen to the truth. And the Cancer Center - do I really need to say something about the fucking Cancer Center? It should be obvious.
On Twitter, I tweeted: “I’m running out of people I can trust.” When things were getting extremely heated last week, I realized that there were 4 people who I can trust. There are others who I cannot trust personally but I can trust the fact that some of these people will do the right thing.
That’s what I have learned, in these waning moments of May, that you can always trust the ethics of 90% of people. At this point, many have told me that they’ve had enough. We’re done bullshitting around. Things are going to start getting very ugly for the power mongers of the department, starting this work week.
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POETRYEATER: from Czeslaw Milosz, "A Song on the End of the World"
And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is…
Mapping the Wonder Inside Every Cell
Behold the biochemical pathways of the cell. For decades, these wall charts have adorned the hallways and laboratories wherever biochemists are at work. They are at once both reference and art.
The version pictured above (click here for the holycraphuge version) is state of the art, a subway map of interacting pathways, intersecting reactions, and a road map for the journey to make any building block our cells need. Each node is an enzyme or product, separated by color into metabolic subdomains. You really must head over to KEGG and play with the interactive version, where each dot comes alive, an interactive chemical structure.
I’m also a big fan of Gerard Michal’s legendary wall charts of yesteryear. Watching the evolution in design from his 1974 version to a later 1993 map, his layouts are chock full of vintage German aesthetic.
Harry Potter and the Order of Phlebotomists
A new blood type test has been developed that takes a page right out of Tom Riddle’s diary. Instead of writing on a page and receiving an answer, blood is washed over the paper and the letter corresponding to the blood type is activated.
Antibodies that are specific to each particular blood type are immobilized on the page, and when blood is washed over them, it sticks. The result is an easy-to-read, foolproof check for hospitals and mobile units.
No word on if it can detect mudblood.
(via Monash University)
IT’S MY TWO FAVOURITE THINGS COMBINED: HARRY POTTER AND SCIENCE!
EXCITING STUFF.
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