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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Ha, that's funny. Do you have to learn greek?
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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??
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http://www.humornaciencia.com.br/blog/
Luis,
Go right ahead.
if u say this is graffiti then the'good' ones are just amazing.this is not graffiti in art its just tagging equations!!
well thats my opinion anyway!I dont wanna be harsh