Overheard in the lab:
You can't just dump stuff into it. You know, it's not a truck. The ER is a series of tubes!
If you have no idea what we're talking about, where have you been! OK I'll be a little less facetious ... watch this instructional video on the internet and tubes:
And if you are wondering what was that from, it's a remix of this speech that Senator Ted Stevens gave sometime last year.
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As promised last Friday, today we report the results of our investigation of the solubility properties of
How do scientists make glass stronger? Break it.
Back when I was a grad student at NIST, we had a large frame argon ion laser that put out 10-15 watts of green light that we then used to pump a Ti:Sapph laser to produce the infrared light we used for laser cooling.