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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…
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Welcome to the GoCorral website! I’m Isaac Shaker and this is a place for me to write about D&D and occasionally other topics. I host a podcast called Setting the Stage that interviews different DMs about their campaigns. I’m currently focused on completing the Cimmeria campaign setting and turning it into a book.
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83 – Call of Cthulhu's Garden (Hem and The Sprouting) – Setting the Stage, Campaigns for D&D and Other RPGs
Hem tells us about their actual play campaign, The Sprouting. Within the world of The Sprouting, Earth's history diverged during the 1800s when an eldritch horror was summoned into our reality. The horror lay in wait for centuries, building up a secret army of plant monsters. In 2020, the plant monsters struck, ruining infrastructure and attacking population centers across the world. One hundred years have passed and our heroes learn that the next stage of the plant apocalypse has begun…We also discussed some of the difficulties and pleasures of actual play podcasts and how the RPG community varies internationally (Hem is in Iceland).If you want to try listening to The Sprouting its available on all major podcast platforms. You can learn more on The Sprouting's website.For other shows produced by Hem check out Blighthouse Studio's website.Hem mentioned The Lucky Die actual play show of theirs several times which used D&D 5e.And the broader network of Fable and Folly has their website too.Check out the Setting the Stage website!Want to be on the show? Fill out this survey.Join our Discord!Support Setting the Stage on Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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