Geekery
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Visualizing Biomolecules II: Electron Microscopy
In my last post I talked a lot about how we use x-ray diffraction patterns to calculate the shape of…
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Have a Very Surly Christmas!
Just in time for the holidays, I tackle a tricky subject via my photography: What do you get the Grinch…
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The Art of Science: Expressing Gene Expression
I might have had the past month of my life swallowed by writing and editing a paper analyzing a massive…
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Cheers to (and with) Geeky Glassware
I try a lot of projects. Some of them are unqualified successes. Some of them make me realize that I…
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DOWN WITH FAKE NERDS (A rallying cry to real geeks.)
You know what I can’t stand? Fake nerds. You know the kind, sauntering around a convention like they’re hot stuff,…
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BBC Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell
So BBC 2 made a documentary about the inner workings of a cell, which also has sweet animations, AND is…
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Dang it, Riker
It’s been a couple years since I have watched Star Trek: The Next Gen and yesterday I was hit by…
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Real Nerds Only: A Beginner’s Guide to Gaming Venues
This week has had some familiar tropes resurfacing about attempts to enter the nerding world. I was first linked to an…
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