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Category: Lab Life
Posted on: March 23, 2007 9:09 AM, by Alex Palazzo
from a stairway at Harvard Medical School.
Interesting tags ... just like street graffiti, scientific graffiti is probably meaningless to the untrained eye.
Here's a closeup:
Notice the greek slang (lambda for microlitres), the violent use of base to strip off antibodies, the reference to blood sacrifice (IVT), and the malefic use of calcium. I'm guessing that these were the work of a former Rapoport lab member.
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Comments
Ha, that's funny. Do you have to learn greek?
Posted by: Adrian Clement | March 25, 2007 11:32 AM
more basic stuff, i found at the eth toilet in zuerich.the not so difficult to answer question would be: lazy student or intellectual rapper...? http://n.ethz.ch/student/pedolind/wordpress/?p=26
Posted by: dario | March 25, 2007 6:59 PM
the only thing i can interpret from this abstract art is a possible neuron w/ dendrites and abnormally distended axonal bouton (possibly due to extreme hebbian learning?). and is that a western blot??
Posted by: kate | March 29, 2007 6:08 PM
Can I use these images in my weblog?
http://www.humornaciencia.com.br/blog/
Posted by: Luis Brudna | April 15, 2007 3:26 PM
Luis,
Go right ahead.
Posted by: apalazzo | April 16, 2007 1:29 PM
if u say this is graffiti then the'good' ones are just amazing.this is not graffiti in art its just tagging equations!!
Posted by: daniasha | June 13, 2009 12:01 PM
well thats my opinion anyway!I dont wanna be harsh
Posted by: danisha | June 13, 2009 12:03 PM