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Yep, this is the "easy" way to chloride silver wires in the lab. I've chlorided silver wires by immersing part of the wire in bleach (regular household Clorox) and taping it in pla…

This is a pretty good introduction. I highly recommend Feynman's book "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter" as an excellent in-depth work that does not sacrifice accuracy f…

Computers were at the core of Jurassic Park. Remember, the novel was published in 1990. Among other important uses: * the widespread use of computers for nearly complete automation…

Between Alamaden (San Jose) and Yorktown Heights (NY) in the US, IBM is one of the last few industrial basic sciences/engineering labs in the US, resembling Bell Labs and Xerox PAR…

IBM/Intel/Samsung buy tools from various companies. By "tools", I really mean huge pieces of instrumentation that cost many (tens to hundreds) millions of dollars from other compan…

IBM was one of the first big companies to develop/commercialize SOI technologies.

Certain parts of the cleanroom will look yellow--these are the spaces where they do lithography with resists that are openly accessible to the air. UV-sensitive resists will chemic…

Yes, I was referring to Microsoft Office in the comment. I've used LibreOffice for years while running Linux before. I noticed perfomance issues compared to Microsoft Office on Win…

This is one step closer towards an effective full Office Suite on Linux, which I would be very happy about.

It is increasingly common for large labs in the life sciences (25+ members) to hire multiple support staff (with PhDs) to help offset this load. This is in addition to positions li…