I recently made a video about Maud Menten. I used Lego, of course, but this time also added myself. Menten is a famous name in Biochemistry, but for years I …
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MusicMusicians and ScientistsScience in Art & Culture
Beyonce the Biochemist
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenSatire site The Onion recently launched a sister site called Clickhole. It’s a parody on Upworthy, Buzzfeed, and other such sites, but of course the content on Clickhole is all …
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In the same vein as the interviews I normally do on this site, The Scientist interviewed a scientist/musician. Johan Olsen works as crystallographer at the University of Copenhagen, and is …
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I was cleaning out the bookmarks on my laptop, when – no, that’s not true. I was clicking on all the bookmarks, noticed that 70% are now dead links, and …
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Oliver Smithies lecture at the University of Toronto
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenI went to a lecture by Oliver Smithies this morning. I most enjoyed his stories of things that didn’t work. His PhD thesis that nobody ever read, his inventions that …
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Science CommunicationScience life and careers
Biochemistry laboratory safety in the good old days
by Eva Amsenby Eva AmsenMy department is celebrating its 100th birthday with a symposium this week. One of the highlights of today’s talks was this snippet on lab safety from Marian Packham, who was …
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