personal and professional notes from a naive chemistry professor
May 14th 2004General & nerd alert
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.
Mar 3rd 2004General
Analytical chemistry is about making tools to measure stuff to see what it’s made of. Tools are based on
Feb 26th 2004General
Random musings On Monday, my advisor comes in and tells me he needs impressive data and a nifty poster “by Friday,
Feb 24th 2004General
Update: I think I burned the bone. Argh. Maybe only at the very end of the experiment. *crosses fingers*
Feb 24th 2004General
It’s 2 a.m. and I’m sitting here wondering how hard it is to make dehydrated/instant soup. This,
Jan 9th 2004General
Bones are made of extremely small crystalline particles of carbonated hydroxyapatite, held together (sort of) by collagen