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So anyone who has met my dog knows how amazingly fluffy and shed prone he is.  Due to this I have had an incredibly hard time finding a vacuum that can tackle the trashbags-full of white, fluffy fur covering... well...everything.  I have gone through 3 vacuums so far, each dying or losing significant power after only a week or two of a regular ( Read more... )

I broke down and opened up ye olde photoshop and got me some new userpics.  Yay!

This one:                                             And my new default everyone can see.

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So one of the questions asked in my microbiology class was "Do you think technology will ever allow viruses to be seen with a light microscope?"

The formula for the resolution of a light microscope is wavelength / (2 * numerical aperture)  where wavelength is assumed to be an average of 500 nm and the highest numerical aperture of most light ( Read more... )

Check out this nifty link:  Angel's Nest is Sustainable Homeland Security

Ok, so anyone who knows me knows I'm not really a chocoholic, so me raving about a chocolate bar is pretty unusual. Yesterday I found the most awesome chocolate bar known to man (or woman). It's called Dagoba Xocolatl and it is 74% organic dark chocolate with bits of chilies and cacao mixed in.  The taste?...OMFG...The ultra rich chocolate flavor ( Read more... )

Tomorrow (Friday April 7th) is the undergrad research poster session at UT. That means that the main foyer of Welch Hall will be full of lots of undergrads showing off their research, including the stuff I've been working on all semester. I highly recommend all you sciencey types come check it out, and all you non-sciencey types might find it ( Read more... )

Not that I am really the bleeding heart type, but This article presents some interesting correlations between advertising and lifestyle/social class.  So now my question is:  Does the advertising really help to maintain socioeconomic and racial segregation or does it merely take advantage of an already present situation that is unlikely to be ( Read more... )

Hmm...so am I competent or incompetent? (Kudos to 
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