Hrmph.
My Terribly Useful Collection of Assorted and Divers Rubber Bands Of Various Sizes and Colours has completely disintegrated.
This is what happens when one tries to implement vague new year's resolution type thingies.
In all those years, I don't think I used a single one of those rubber bands. Who knew.
On the other hand, it turned out I had a backup stash of Assorted and Divers Paper Clips.
Handy that.
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I got an email from the head of this study, David F. Colvard, MD, of Raleigh, North Carolina. His team has shown that nasal irrigation can help solve a common problem for scuba divers: middle ear squeeze.
Great idea, but don't do what these guys did.
Five SCUBA divers from Euope went diving in the vicinity of Indonesia in waters known to be very treacherous.
They quickly became separated from their boat, and floated in shark infested waters for two days.
I am surprised at how many people (chemistry faculty included) have never seen this demo. (oh, technically it is called a cartesian diver demo) Basically, you put some floating object that has an air space in a closed bottle of water. When you squeeze it, the diver goes down.
You'd think with all those arms they'd have at least one free to focus and set the exposure.
The paper clips won't disintegrate; they just grow up to become coat hangers.
Hm, no coathangers around my office, so it is not like the pile of clips that vanished has started breeding in dark desk corners or anything?
Unless they are being aided by the ballpoint pens of course...