The Monster Silica Ma(e)sh
Happy halloween from LabSolutely: and, in case you missed them, don’t forget the other classic LabSolutely video: Mario Bros Column Chromatography and the making of So God Made a Chemist and the...
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Videogames and science: “The Last of Us”
Since long time I wanted to do a post (or a series of posts) on videogames and science (the university journal talking about the project here.pdf). Recently I finished “The Last of Us” and I guess it’s...
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Scientists from 80s (80s movies may explain something)
Can some movies reflect our attitude in the lab? Let’s see…. The gremlins:Never, and that’s very important, never start a new experiment (or purification) after midnight. You are tired and the risk...
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Column Hell
Although I usually have fun with column chromatography (it was also the topic of my first post one year ago) and TLCs, sometime sith happens (no, it’s not a typo). You know, that spot that is not...
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My top something papers of 2013
What are the top ten papers that you read this year? @JessTheChemist on her blog started this nice topic, followed by @KarlDcollins here and now I guess it’s my turn. Before going on, maybe it’s nice...
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Holidays
Remember to clean your fumehood before going in holiday…… And (as you can see in the second picture) remember to leave a reaction for the new year, a token for the Gods of Chemistry. Happy holidays...
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Don’t put it in your mouth
I’m not going to lie to you: Helix is a bad show. Scientists mixing up DNA, RNA and proteins without any elementary knowledge of the subject, bright field microscope used for imaging nanometric...
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some journals 2
Please, please, please, when you are little bit depressed read this paper : http://innovativejournal.in/index.php/jpro/article/view/678 , it’s a laughing-tears-paper (LTP). It should have dealt with...
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The Feng-Shui Lab
Planning to renew your lab? New space to fill? New instrument to set-up? Did you think about the energy flow of the lab? No? Then do not complain if the phds are fighting each other, the rotavap is...
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Go the f*ck to work
Happy new academic year to all of you!!! May this year be full of 50 hours days and even less holidays than the year before, bless referee number 3 for his great comments and so on and so on… It’s...
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How to deal with Lab Thieves
Disclaimer: this is (as most of the case on this blog) a funny, non-serious post. DO NOT do the following things in your lab! You are ready to set up a reaction, open the flask drawer and…. Nothing…...
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Twitter for Chemists
This is a special post for Chains 2014, the biggest chemistry conference in the Netherlands. You can see the 2011 videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNBkSEYSPT4&list=PL1249D16AE757DEE0...
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Fast Update…. quantum dots frenziness
Just a fast update (pretty busy at the moment): Tomorrow the contest will be officially closed, so far we have 2 winners. Will you be the third???? As I’m pretty busy with teaching, here some nice...
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And the winners are….
I’m naturally talking about the “unknown compound competition“. Let’s crunch some numbers first: the post was viewed c.a. 1000 times, 11 chemists participated in the competition and we now have 2...
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Sugru in a chemistry lab
Screaming voice from the back of the room: “What the hell is sugru????”. Sugru, my dear friend is an amazing material that has millions, if not billions, different applications, from preparing old...
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Me and my thermal camera
Recently I’m working on some hot hot hot reaction and I needed something fast to monitor the heat, what better excuse to buy another toy??? I’ve got a seek thermal camera for my iphone...
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Another TEM “problem”?
Do you remember the 2013 TEM scandal ? Well, today we may have a new one. Everything started with this post on reddit…. and in all honesty some of the pictures look little bit strange…. People are...
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CoverTime: 80s vs 90s
Let’s start a new category: It’s CoverTime!!! The first topic of this category is ’80s versus ’90s…… In the beautiful cover for the last issue of ChemElectroChem the Spanish group headed by Ibon...
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15 reasons why NOT to date a chemist
Early this week I was reading this “dating advice” on 15 reasons why to date a chemist. Although most of their points are quite good there is always the other side of the coin…. So… 15 reasons why NOT...
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