A video montage from a sci|art institute for high school students hosted by UCLA's Art | Sci Center and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). The stuff they're playing with is cooler than what I got in grad school! Jealous now.
More information about the course here. I don't know when registration/applications open, but the site seems to suggest checking back Jan 15 (that's today!).
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Sci has just tendered her letter of resignation to the Overlords at SEED. This was a very, very hard decision, and it hurts Sci more than she can say. Sci would like to let you know, though, that she hasn't given up blogging!!! She has merely moved back to her old digs.
It wasn't until college that Sci first heard Wednesday referred to as "Hump Day".
She apologizes for a certain lack of hefty content in the latest series of posts. This thing, they call it "real" life", and it's getting in the way.
But there are some things you NEED to see.
A new genus name for water mites, from a recent paper in Zootaxa: