Science Communication

I’m sitting cross-legged on my chair at my desk. Partly because it’s comfortable, partly because the cat just sailed across the living room on a rug and landed right at …

Prologue: I have been working on this blog post about failure for months and kept cutting bits out of it because it was so long and boring. This is actually …

I often have very funny dreams. There was one where an alternate reality version of Dumbledore (from Harry Potter) drove a Vespa and wore a “The Who” T-shirt. Other dreams …

I’ve always felt that I wasn’t creative enough in the lab. If protocols say to add 24 ul and wait 5 minutes, I will do just that. Sometimes I’m lazy …

May 2012: I just moved the science/music blog over to easternblot.net, which also contains different types of blog posts. This was the historic start of my project for which I …

Nature is on YouTube now with its Nature Video Channel. If you only know YouTube from mashup videos and kittencams, this may be surprising. If you have previously seen the …