Science is Cool LIF - Day 1

Disappointing - I figured that the guy who brings litmus paper to DLD would win this thing easily. Plus, you work in a giant building full of nerds... you should have had a huge friends/coworkers advantage over most of these google jockeys...

 

Had I not known the cocaine one myself, I wonder how much trouble I could've gotten into wandering around work asking people, "So what's this the chemical structure of?"

I definitely didn't know any of the three for Day 10. The best part about this is learning new stuff, like Quantum Dots for Day 6.

 

I feel your pain. I actually emailed the picture to some people at work before I figured out what it was an quietly suggested they ignore me. I should have learned my lesson with the MRI... which I also emailed to some people.

 

Thank god I'm not back to teaching until after Labor Day. I'd probably be turning my AP Calc students on these. I can only imagine the phone calls I'd get.

 

On the cocaine chemical structure i was so ready to pull my hair out that i actually emailed some random professor in Canada who apparently is a wiz with that stuff. he eventually got back to me a day or two too late, but thankfully i had figured it out. i must've spent 3 hours learning about chemical structures and molecular geometry that day. i was really ready to bow out of the contest entirely and then something clicked and i figured out what i was looking at. interestingly enough, i've since traded a few fun emails with the professor who was amazed that this was part of a contest to win beer of all things. lesson learned about reaching out to others for help when you don't know what it is as cam is a sick mutha. it reminds me of the goonies when mouth is translating to the house keeper.

 

Vacation stuff. As a consolation prize to me sucking at this the last couple days was finding batch 1 and 2 Consecration on the shelf in a little wine shop. Now I'm going to try this one from the airport, haha!

 

These pictures are coming too fast. I haven't had the chance to recover from yesterday's yet.

 

I feel your pain... :/

 

By the way... Pretty sure I missed yesterdays unless you took Brownian Motion as an answer. That pic definitely had A LOT going on. Diffusion, Brownian Motion, refractive index matching, etc... Phew.

 

Great image and great stumper. Visible electrons is one of the neater experiments out there.

 

Not to be a bitch but convection is a description of Brownian motion.

 

Definitely damaged. It appears to have been sliced clean through.

 

Fair enough. I forgot electrons were blue

 

sad I missed yesterday, but I am still happy with my guess of the iodine test used to see if conversion is complete during the mash stage.

 

Gonna be quite sad if I miss two in a row...

 

Triple checking that this is the only information you want.