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These Cells Are Ready to Be Split
Fibroblasts as seen through a 10x magnification. These are live cells, unlike my pretty color pictures. The density of the culture means we can safely split it into a number of parts, where they will continue growing to yield a greater total number of cells.
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Mounting Coverslips
One of the many steps that precedes the pretty fluorescence pictures I get. Cells are on little glass coverslips in the plate, and get mounted onto the slide with a special liquid and sealed into place with clear nail polish. All in dim light, since some of the stains are light-sensitive.
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How to Engage with the Community
I don’t consider myself a “blogger” or a “social media guru,” but I do enjoy sharing things with my friends and meeting new people online. I also don’t like when companies try to force buzz, such “retweet this message ten times to enter to win a prize.” Instead, I share things with people because I…
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Netflix’s War on Customers
It’s no secret that the big media “old guard” want absolute control over how we as individuals experience culture. Rather than viewing the internet and the technologies and services it enables as exciting new opportunities to eliminate the cost of distribution and reach a global audience, they have insisted on clinging to a scarcity-driven business…
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Wishing
Threadless printed a delightful shirt years ago, that I was too foolish to snap up immediately, instead hoping it would still be available during their next sale. I’ve been waiting for years since then for them to reprint it, and the finally did—only now, I’m too poor to afford the full price $20 + shipping.…
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Graduate Productivity
For me, digital task management began with Microsoft Outlook somewhere in my “tween” years. By the time middle school came around, I was syncing it with a Windows Mobile PDA, awkwardly carrying it around wherever I could. Today, I find myself using Producteev to try and wrangle the myriad of to-do items that come with being a married…
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DM & M
Picked this up from a vendor at the symposium yesterday. I do enjoy some science humor.
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One Long Week
I stayed up writing a post last night, attached images to it this morning, and sent the email to Posterous before leaving for the research symposium—only to have it disappear from existence between my phone, Sparrow, and the Gmail servers. During the beginning of the symposium I wrote a new post on the back of…
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.