Oh, this Scientist is for PCR...

YAY! Look Look Look!

Fuck! Finally. Little lab accomplishments.

I know many of you may not understand the satisfaction or the GLORY that one could feel at fully correct gene integration, but it goes a little something like this:

Holy Evolution, Darwin!

So I was never a kid that really read comic books, but that has never impaired my ability to appreciate them artistically. Ok, so I'll admit, my actual collection of comic book art is a little--um--nonexistent, but I've always been a Batman fan, X-men celebrator, and, thanks to my old boyfriend, an Iron Man enthusiast. If you haven't done it, go take a look at the original cells for some of the old comic books; the folks down at the Comic Book Conventions would probably have a lot more to say on this than me, but by golly, they're impressive and, let's not lie here, attractive, in every way possible...

Either way, whether it's Hollywood Marvel, Tim Burton's Batman, or original cells, imagine my happiness when I found THIS...


Now, thanks to Jim Ottaviani, I can add the superfreaks of ultra-fem science to my superhuman posse. Can you imagine?? Rosalind Franklin, Lise Mietner, and Barbara McClintock! Are they superheros? No. Are they super-bomb? Yes. Which is why, in every kind of fight, I'd probably win if they came flying out of Pokeballs.

Let's take a look:


That's Rosalind, by the way. More of this genius can be found here. Oh it'll be a good day when this comes in the mail...

And just when you didn't think it could get better...? OMG!!1!YES: the price is still $1.50.

John Hancock turns Digital

My favorite site to web-loiter at is MIT.edu. I swear, this thing is better than any blog, Amazon, The Stranger, or YouTube... It is just jam packed of the most remarkable stuff, not only limited to science---oh no, MIT has long abandoned its exclusion of the liberal arts. The research labs particularly dedicated to science AND art are absolutely mind-blowing.

Take, for instance, one of my favorite research projects led by Richard The: designing digital fonts and characters that mimic the organic look and flow of original handwriting.

Mind-blown? Oh trust me. More will come...

I think I inhaled her.

Result of having no benchwork: microscopic artists.

Willard Wigan is possibly the coolest sculptor I have ever heard of. Probably owns some fantastic microscopes...



You like? His website is right here.

Also equally cool, though far less intimidating and more feasible...?

I want a dozen, please.

Feel no strength.

So, I came in to work today, worried about the results I got from my experiment the night before, and decide to wait until my boss comes in to discuss game plans. Lo and behold, three hours later, my straight-laced boss g-chats me this:

Sent at 11:37 AM on Thursday
Y: I was super drunk last night
Me: uh oh heheh
Y: feel no strength…they has good signal?
Me: yeah. i would do another western, but because there's no loading control for the pellet, i don't want to waste the sample
Y: ok
Me: are you in the office or at home?
Y: home.
Y: I didn't remember where my car is.
Y: I just feel sick
Me: um, don't come in.

Fantastic. No experiments.

Instead, I will be watching this:

Intrepretive Dance Protein Synthesis? I say Yes.

First post is extremely geeky, but honestly, what do you expect from an art and science blog?

This is a movie from 1971 directed by Robert Alan Weiss at Stanford University's Department of Chemistry, and narrated by (!) Paul Berg, 1980 Nobel prize winner for Chemistry. I'll warn you, it's a little slow in the beginning--but it's free love from hear on out by the middle...