Remember the first time you learned sterile technique, or how to make a bacterial spreader, or how to blow up a distillation apparatus? Well, now you can relive the disorientation and anxiety nostalgic fuzzy feeling with benchfly.com, a site that offers video tutorials on various lab tasks, like making a bacterial spreader using a glass rod and a bunsen burner.
Overall, looks like an excellent resource for teachers. But wait - how'd this one slip in there?
Now that is a productive use of glass and alcohol!
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I think I've been tagged at least seven times for the meme where you are supposed to reveal seven unknown facts about yourself. But since I've been baring my soul on this blog for 2.5 years, I'm not sure I can come up with seven things I've never revealed before. Here's my best shot.
Over the past couple weeks an unplanned experiment has taken place that shows what sort of science makes it into the popular consciousness and what doesn't.
DDT hoax spreader Walter E Williams has a new anti-environmentalist column where he writes:
hahaha! Well, as a former bench scientist yourself, I'm sure you appreciate the need for some ethanol-related protocols that don't involve sterilizing a hood...
Thanks for the kind words regarding the site! I'd be very interested to hear about your own personal journey in science!
Alan