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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.

Dino-brand tissues, twice as soft!

Wallaby — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 02:09:58 +0000

For those who haven’t seen it yet, apparently they’ve found out that dinosaur bones (most notably a T. rex) may contain soft tissue: Removal of the mineral phase reveals transparent, flexible, hollow blood vessels containing small round microstructures that can be expressed from the vessels into solution. Some regions of the demineralized bone matrix are [...]

Schedules gone awry

Wallaby — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 04:38:15 +0000

The university’s bone center had themselves a nice little symposium the other day… strictly “local”, various doctors and faculty from the medical and dental schools coming together to present their work to each other. And one group of out-of-depth chemists. I have no idea how the talks went in the morning, except that all four [...]

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.

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