Archive for October, 2009

Exploding mouse red blood cells

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

I suppose I'm taking a chance, what with the law about visualizations of animal cruelty still under consideration by the Supremes.   I feel a little cruel making my dog sit and wait (and drool) for her dinner, so I'm not being flip about this. I brought our crufty video enabled microscope ...

Ig Nobel Moments of Science

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

The Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony is happening tonight at 7:15 in Sanders Theater at Harvard University.   My friend and co-conspirator Joost and I will once again don our lab coats as Performing Scientists, and perpetrate two Moments of Science. Each Moment of Science is a one minute science demonstration, presented and ...