Comments on: Stealing shit from biologists.

By: mannich

mannich — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:19:06 +0000

What the fuck…takes balls to work in a lab like that.

By: LiqC

LiqC — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:26:53 +0000

Nobody’s using the frying pan to cook food. It’s a handy thing to have in the lab. I’ve used one for dehydrating sodium acetate. It’s quite beautiful – first it melts its three crystallization waters, and then solidifies. The kettle is for tea though.

Yes, this is in Russia. (I’ve never worked in this lab but I know several people who have and went on to get PhDs in the US). This is in chemical technology institute which cares this –><– much about research.

By: OrganicOverdose

OrganicOverdose — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:25:57 +0000

SERIOUSLY?! Is the Prof. Russian or some other form of Eastern European. I mean I have heard horror stories but I never thought I would see the likes of this. I mean seriously, that is a frying pan in the background there isn’t it? And what kind of Institute these days would allow such a health hazard? Especially after all the crazy horror stories we have been hearing lately. I really find that so hard to believe, I mean how did they achieve the red and yellow stains and ZOMG that is a kitchen sink. I mean seriously, that is NUTS!

By: Chip

Chip — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:33:38 +0000

I like the red teapot on the lab jack! Is that part of the reaction?

By: LiqC

LiqC — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:20:44 +0000

Do they have to get cells high so they could munch on diazomethane?

By: Ψ*Ψ

Ψ*Ψ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:59:26 +0000

Of course not–the biologists who contribute to science are actually chemists! This is why they get the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, right?

By: Rhenium

Rhenium — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:28:47 +0000

Bwahahaha!

By: milkshake

milkshake — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:12:44 +0000

Biologists leave their lab at 5pm and draw seven-membered benzene rings (then add the double bonds in wrong places…) They use Falcon tubes and superstition on daily basis. They put concentrated HCl into a leaky plastic bottle and wonder why the nearby 0.01mg precision balance stops working after while. They worry all the time about ethidium bromide genotoxicity and epinephrine teratogenic properties but nitrosomethylurea spilled on the bench fazes them not. And so on.

I have nothing against biologists, in the same way I have nothing against people who get to pick lettuce for living – it is not really their fault they didn’t quite make it as pre-meds.

By: Opioid

Opioid — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:56:12 +0000

That’s right. Biologists have made zero, zilch, nada contribution to science over the last fifty years.

By: fng

fng — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:44:30 +0000

i worked in a high potency suit that resembled that slop jar. i guess i was part of the problem by refusing to clean it