The supervisor's right - they should return them sooner.
Honestly, nothing drove me more nuts than people being inconsiderate with communal glassware. My lab was excellently equipped, with a more than sufficient supply of glassware for the people working there - if they were kept in circulation, that is. Instead they sat in fridges, freezers, in the back of fumehoods, often unlabelled and far past the point of their contents being important or, in some cases, even known.
It's bad lab practice. Keep stocks of intermediates etc. in cleaned out reagent bottles. Keep small samples in glass vials or other "disposable" glassware. Don't store your NMR tubes or marker pens in glassware (I'm not making these examples up).
Although, thinking back on it, maybe that stuff was only really bugging me because it was the last six months of my PhD and *everything* was bugging me...
I would have been quite annoyed at that. Hell, I even get annoyed when the people near my lab bench have a bunch of glassware (UNLABELED) scattered around and encroaching on my workspace. It's not like we're heating 12M HCl every day, but even if we're using.15M KI in water, it's not that hard to label things and keep a lab space organized! of course, some of these people have to be reminded about using the right disposal container...
As an academic, I would describe it as more like living in a nightmare.
yeah. it's hell. I think a lot of students pay more fore textbooks than they do for food. Since I'm a science major, I'm usually required to get the new editions, which are twice the cost of the previous edition. Of course, most of the information in the old edition is outdated...
I can definitely see how this could be useful, especially in research labs. but with budgets in the state they are, it'll be years before public universities will get a chance to even think about applying this technology.
I think it's a good idea to draw attention to the issue, but I dunno how much coverage it will get. I know the news where I live tends to focus on local politics and crime, the weather, sports, and current national stuff.
of course, they might just throw it in as a 'local event,' ignoring the fact that it's going on around the country.
"But officer, since I didn't observe the stop sign, it was both there and not there at the same time. It was there after YOU observed it, but by that time I was already gone!"
"If you knew where I was, then how do you know how fast I was going?"
Yeah, the species studied is Spermophilus beecheyi, the California Ground Squirrel. The grey squirrels in the US are Sciurus griseus (the Western Grey squirrel), Sciurus arizonensis (Arizona grey) and Sciurus carolinensis (the Eastern Grey squirrel), and the 'red' (more brownish) squirrels in the US are Sciurus niger (the fox squirrel, pretty much all over North America) and Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (red squirrel). The red squirrels in the UK are most likely Sciurus vulgaris (the Eurasian red squirrel) and the grey ones are likely Sciurus carolinensis as well, as the species was introduced to Europe.
(Eyes furry rodent hanging out at the bird feeder with a bit more respect.)
I honestly think that the squirrels around my house are smarter than my dogs (of course that's not saying much). And there are sooooo many crazy squirrel stories I could tell...
Suffice to say, once one of the squirrels stole my coffee, I had very little trouble with choosing my subject for an ethology project.
A Cryptonomicon movie would be amazing, but I don't think that it would end up being a major movie- too easy to mess up, and I can't imagine that many screenplay writers or directors could fully translate the span or depth of Cryptonomicon.
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The supervisor's right - they should return them sooner.
Honestly, nothing drove me more nuts than people being inconsiderate with communal glassware. My lab was excellently equipped, with a more than sufficient supply of glassware for the people working there - if they were kept in circulation, that is. Instead they sat in fridges, freezers, in the back of fumehoods, often unlabelled and far past the point of their contents being important or, in some cases, even known.
It's bad lab practice. Keep stocks of intermediates etc. in cleaned out reagent bottles. Keep small samples in glass vials or other "disposable" glassware. Don't store your NMR tubes or marker pens in glassware (I'm not making these examples up).
Although, thinking back on it, maybe that stuff was only really bugging me because it was the last six months of my PhD and *everything* was bugging me...
I would have been quite annoyed at that. Hell, I even get annoyed when the people near my lab bench have a bunch of glassware (UNLABELED) scattered around and encroaching on my workspace. It's not like we're heating 12M HCl every day, but even if we're using .15M KI in water, it's not that hard to label things and keep a lab space organized! of course, some of these people have to be reminded about using the right disposal container...
but then, we're not PhD students
As an academic, I would describe it as more like living in a nightmare.
yeah. it's hell. I think a lot of students pay more fore textbooks than they do for food. Since I'm a science major, I'm usually required to get the new editions, which are twice the cost of the previous edition. Of course, most of the information in the old edition is outdated...
I can definitely see how this could be useful, especially in research labs. but with budgets in the state they are, it'll be years before public universities will get a chance to even think about applying this technology.
I think it's a good idea to draw attention to the issue, but I dunno how much coverage it will get. I know the news where I live tends to focus on local politics and crime, the weather, sports, and current national stuff.
of course, they might just throw it in as a 'local event,' ignoring the fact that it's going on around the country.
"But officer, since I didn't observe the stop sign, it was both there and not there at the same time. It was there after YOU observed it, but by that time I was already gone!"
"If you knew where I was, then how do you know how fast I was going?"
Yeah, the species studied is Spermophilus beecheyi, the California Ground Squirrel.
The grey squirrels in the US are Sciurus griseus (the Western Grey squirrel), Sciurus arizonensis (Arizona grey) and Sciurus carolinensis (the Eastern Grey squirrel), and the 'red' (more brownish) squirrels in the US are Sciurus niger (the fox squirrel, pretty much all over North America) and Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (red squirrel). The red squirrels in the UK are most likely Sciurus vulgaris (the Eurasian red squirrel) and the grey ones are likely Sciurus carolinensis as well, as the species was introduced to Europe.
(Eyes furry rodent hanging out at the bird feeder with a bit more respect.)
I honestly think that the squirrels around my house are smarter than my dogs (of course that's not saying much). And there are sooooo many crazy squirrel stories I could tell...
Suffice to say, once one of the squirrels stole my coffee, I had very little trouble with choosing my subject for an ethology project.
A Cryptonomicon movie would be amazing, but I don't think that it would end up being a major movie- too easy to mess up, and I can't imagine that many screenplay writers or directors could fully translate the span or depth of Cryptonomicon.
quite possibly. or russia, or north korea.
now that would be something. scientific journals would explode.