Friday Fun: WWWTP? Linkin Park Edition

Through the wonders of the Internet, I've found this still image from the 2003 Linkin Park video for "Numb": In the video, a y...

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A Nudge Towards "Scrudge"

Last night, while I trudged through Alexander Shulgin's  seminal work* PiHKAL , I came upon scrudge , a fantastic heretofore-unknown-to-...

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Science Blackout Poetry, Round 2

Round 1 JACS 2006 , 10596 (These are really fun to do!) R.B. Woodward's thesis Chem. Comm.   1976 , 734

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Science Blackout Poetry

Inspired by Austin Kleon and the New York Times , honoring National Poetry Month . Update (April 27): A Reddit commenter (rightly) points o...

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Golden Bacteria?

An amazing breakthrough (!) recently made the rounds on Wired  and Gizmodo : a synthetic chemistry / art-house installation in which microbe...

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Art Antics

In case you hadn't heard, B.R.S.M. is running a pictorial carnival of sorts. His angle? To celebrate the upcoming 66th birthday of vene...

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Friday Fun - Lab Arts-n-Crafts

The Leaning Tower of Septa It's been a long few weeks at the "real job," and I haven't had a lot of time for serious, anal...

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Abstract Coloring Book: Take Two

The "colored abstract bug" spreads quickly. Since I began cataloguing appearances, they've cropped up in several other journa...

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Found Chemistry - Landmark Gate with Chemical Message

On a recent visit to a major US university, I had occasion to stop outside the towering steel gates leading into the main courtyard of the n...

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