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Continue reading →: Nuke Power Spaceship
There was an article published recently on the BBC’s website called “Will nuclear-powered spaceships take us to the stars?” The article describes an idea for interplanetary space travel using nuclear bombs. The bomb detonates behind the spaceship and the shockwave propels the ship forwards. You can see it in the…
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Continue reading →: Diablo 3 Instead of D&D
Sundays are typically D&D night for my friends and me, but we didn’t play for a couple of reasons. One of my friends couldn’t make it and two others had to be in and out for a few reasons. So instead of D&D we played video games! League of Legends…
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Continue reading →: Meeting on the Alexander Paper
Today I talked with the Classics professor who has been helping me with the paper I’ve been writing on Alexander the Great. I finished the final edits on my paper for resubmission and I wanted to go over them with a professional. We made a few more minor edits and…
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Continue reading →: Injecting Worms
I gave an extra post about one of my jobs. It seems fair to cover the other job as well at some point! I study introns in C. elegans worms, but how do I get the specific introns in the worms? I need introns in specific placements in specific genes in…
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Continue reading →: Cow Fartpacks
A friend of mine posted an article on Facebook recently about collecting methane from cows. Most people are familiar with carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas, but there are two other big ones, water (H2O) and methane (CH4). Water is the preferable one. It only has a large greenhouse…
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Continue reading →: Lab Construction Work
Yesterday I got home pretty tired after work. The picture above is what I did at work. I made some shelves and put some boxes on them. That took all day. The shelves came in five different cardboard boxes. The lab manager and I put the shelves together in the…





