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rickyconnolly

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About rickyconnolly

I am a lowly bioreaction engineer from Ireland.

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    Comment #6672566

    Dude in article pic looks like he's an expert on mushrooms

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    Comment #6668099

    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 Vic…

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    Comment #6667917

    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...

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    The Nazi's comprehensive graphic standards manual

    Here's a link to a PDF of the book itself, if you want to try your hand at reading German printed in tightly-spaced Fraktur: http://ia700306.us.archive.org/16/items/Organisationsbu…

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    Comment #6494304

    Now I am completely freaked out. I could have no brain and not even know it!

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    Comment #6159324

    +1. Since my ISP blocked TPB, I've moved to kickass.to

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    Comment #6132943

    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 plast…

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    Comment #6107618

    Buy one of those stickers and nobody will ever have to know!

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    Comment #6025482

    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 …

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    Comment #6018141

    If anything, it affects us less. All the fake tan and glitter make us nigh-impermeable to the elements

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    Comment #5985473

    You either die a hero... http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgfwAzAgIBhwHtAV7/AAAB7QFeAc...

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    Comment #5981348

    >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.

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    Comment #5974310

    This submission deserves more attention that it is getting!

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    Comment #5954259

    Apparently 'pork' is one of their keywords. I wonder why.

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    Comment #5855338

    You ʃhould have uʃed the long ʃ in this article

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    Comment #5840774

    It looks like the bottle is sealed with cork, which is permeable to both air and moisture.

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    Comment #5755975

    A nitpick: the study the article links to is published on Arxiv, rather than an academic journal. This implies these findings have not yet been subjected to peer review. Since the …

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    Comment #5694855

    Their story checks out. Using google translate, I can't find a single language that does not have a 'mama' or something very similar.

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