Creative & design

Etsy Wednesday is back! It’s a Wednesday where I feature a science-themed item from Etsy. It ran irregularly on two previous locations of the blog, and you should be able …

Google has a wonderful tradition of adapting its logo to current events. There is a pattern to the days that get Doodles: they are usually national holidays, human rights or …

A couple of years ago, I created some buttons with the easternblot flask image. I sold about 60 of them via the site and to friends. I still have some …

How do you empty your tip boxes? Do you wildly attack it with your pipette, removing tips randomly throughout the box, or do you start in a corner and neatly …

I used to do Etsy Wednesday, but then I ran out of time and Etsy ran out of new awesome science geekery to feature, so it slowly faded away. But …

Sometimes I put things off for too long. In December 2008, right after I defended my thesis, my friend Liesbeth e-mailed me to ask if I wanted to write about …