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I'm in lab automation, we've come a long way from paper schedules (although those still get plenty of use :) )

US residency funding has not increased since 1997, and residency spots is the real chokepoint

Faraday did a whole series of lectures about a single candle, essentially covering a surprising amount of physics and chemistry. Super simple and fascinating: https://www.gutenberg…

Mark Behlke's group at IDT is the force behind a LOT of the development of CRISPR, but they are relatively unknown

There's a level where institutions are separate from the people that make them move. If your boss can get replaced without destroying your department, then that institutional layer…

What I have been thinking a lot about lately is that the focus should not be on the work. The focus should be on the handoff. If you build something, the goal is to have someone el…

This is awesome! I have some serial devices (RS 232) that I've wished I could make wireless. Are there any similar projects to bluetooth serial comms?

'Gift' vs 'give' also rustles my jimmies. The phrase 'he gifted it to her' doesn't mean anything different from 'he gave it to her'. As a Calvinite, my stance is that 'verbing weir…

It's like you guys have never even heard of 'body on a chip' https://school.wakehealth.edu/research/institutes-and-center... .

dropping packets would be a much bigger deal...

Also Congress caps the number of available residency slots, and that feeds back to med school admissions, etc. ( https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/senators-introduc... )

It does happen like that, lot's of departments within big companies have R&D focus with time dedicated to development/discovery. The problem is that the output is captured. If it d…

How does your technology compare to Nuclera's chip based system? https://www.nuclera.com/technology/

I grew up in the Fort Johnson neighborhood in Charleston, so I was surprised to see that it was listed as a martello. The magazine is definitely still there, a little brick buildin…

'All light causes evaporation' is not really true. IR heating works because the wavelength resonates with the vibration modes of the intramolecular bonds. Water has low absorption …

Their setup looks remarkably similar to my PhD work [0][1] (that included a PoC and simulation). We didn't do power generation, but there was significant electrical activity (nanoa…

Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination

Oh wow, this is really cool. I've seen the exact patterns under 'thin film buckling' (Ziebert et al., “Strongly buckled square micromachined membranes,” J MEMS 8 423-432, 1999) whe…

I'm going to drop a link to this blog: https://profmattstrassler.com/about/about-this-site-and-how-... I am not a particle physicist, but the explanations of quantum mechanics and …

Having worked at the largest synthetic DNA manufacturer (at least they were, I think they still are)... a lot of his information is just wrong. There is a huge incentive to lowerin…

I don't know your particular situation, so no judgement from me... but I've been out-lifted by a one handed guy and seen a one legged man run a half-marathon. Personally, I would h…

The problem is lack of constraint. You can build anything, but where does it fit in the world? That transition from derisked, innovative technology to useful product is particularl…

OR helium ion microscopy, but that is not as widely available afaik 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_helium_ion_microscope

XR2206 chips are pretty useful as cheap function generators for analog projects.

60Hz is the 'flicker fusion rate', meaning if you were changing the frequency of a flashing, stationary LED, ~60Hz would be the frequency where perception transitions from visibly …