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Science? in Florida?

Wallaby — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:17:37 +0000

A while back Scripps decided to set up a branch in Florida. Specifically, in the county due south of where I grew up.

Whew!

Wallaby — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:54:00 +0000

Busy week… it’s now about four and a half months (and counting) until I defend, and I’ve finally gotten

“Fundamental discovery” overblown

Wallaby — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 01:51:33 +0000

“Sacrificial bonds and hidden length dissipate energy as mineralized fibrils separate during bone fracture” — Nature Materials (online July 17 2005, doi:10.1038/nmat1428) (Technical stuff in the full article…) Fantner et al. are in the “sacrificial bond” camp, which supposes that there’s some sort of “sacrificial bond” between … well, between either mineral crystallites and collagen, [...]

Calcium and Vitamin D

Wallaby — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:26:27 +0000

From a study in “Lancet”: Prof Adrian Grant of the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Aberdeen and the study’s lead author, said: “We have found no evidence to suggest that calcium and vitamin supplements have a medical role to play as the only treatment in the prevention of secondary bone fractures. Problem [...]

3 Seminars, 1 afternoon

Wallaby — Thu, 18 Nov 2004 04:26:37 +0000

Three seminars in one day, after an aimless morning. And then we had decent cider and average donuts at the department mixer. Caramel apples, too, although I’ve never been partial to those. And then my mens’ group did a little party for our “sister” women’s group. With miniature quiche. From a box of frozen ones. [...]

Now that was a good day.

Wallaby — Sat, 07 Aug 2004 00:17:26 +0000

Been a long week, but the end was worth it…. finished up the last of the [boring fluoride

Nice neighbors (of the animal kind)

Wallaby — Fri, 14 May 2004 21:49:00 +0000

Saw a deer on the way home from work today. I was walking along through the engineering campus, which still lots of nice woodsy areas, and there was a youngish-looking white-tailed deer by the side of the road. He (?) let me get to within about 25 paces before he sort of strolled off into the woods. Sometimes I really really like this town.

Turns out I don’t know a thing

Wallaby — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 21:36:00 +0000

Analytical chemistry is about making tools to measure stuff to see what it’s made of. Tools are based on

Wallaby — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:17:00 +0000

Random musings On Monday, my advisor comes in and tells me he needs impressive data and a nifty poster “by Friday,

Wallaby — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 02:49:00 +0000

Update: I think I burned the bone. Argh. Maybe only at the very end of the experiment. *crosses fingers*

This is taking way too long.

Wallaby — Tue, 24 Feb 2004 02:20:00 +0000

It’s 2 a.m. and I’m sitting here wondering how hard it is to make dehydrated/instant soup. This,

Insight during group meeting

Wallaby — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 13:12:00 +0000

Bones are made of extremely small crystalline particles of carbonated hydroxyapatite, held together (sort of) by collagen