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• 19.02.2013: LabLulz: this microscope is the bee’s knees!
  

  I recently bought a 80-800x USB microscope. It has really good quality for less than $40, and I’ve been using it to get up close and personal with crystals, dead bugs, and gross parts of my anatomy. Feast your eyes! I hope to get some polarizing filters and videotape the growth of chiral crystals, like [...]
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• 30.01.2013: LabLulz: densitometry of hydrogen purr-oxide
  

  Today in LabLulz, I’m going to walk through a recent preparation I did in my chemistry lab: increasing and measuring the concentration of hydrogen peroxide. WARNING: This procedure involves heat and the end product is a powerful oxidizer. Don’t get burned and don’t get it on yourself – wear gloves, splash-resistant goggles, and an apron. [...]
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• 20.01.2013: ThermoPoker Dot Viz: using pygame animations to understand iterated games
  

  I’m revisiting some older research of mine, so that I can talk a little bit about some data visualization I did along the way. If you frequent TriZPUG or the SplatSpace, you might have seen my original presentation, but In Case You Missed It… You might remember a while back I got interested in researching [...]
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• 02.01.2013: hoppy gnu sneer, or, what’s to be seen in twentythirteen
  

  How did TopOc do on last year’s to-do list? More hard-hitting commentary! More sassing of people who don’t understand graphs! Updates on previous projects! Coming Soon Audiovisual delights! More sweet hax! Fractals and fungaloids! Pentagons and pentagrams! Coming Soon More dry ice! (The shark puppet will also return.) Not bad! As consistent readers might have [...]
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• 15.12.2012: Light and Noise in the Anthropocene
  

  There is a companion article exploring the issue from the perspective of environmental monitoring over at ArkFab. Human influence on the environment has increased dramatically over the last 10,000 years, to the point that some geologists have argued that human reworking of the earth defines a new geologic age, The Anthropocene. (Zalasiewicz et al, 2008) [...]
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• 24.11.2012: dont forget the crystals
  

  Another quick lab snap. These are some nice crystals I grew. I was washing an earlier, less photogenic crystal garden with alcohol, and catching the runoff in a petri dish. I let it evaporate and was greeted with this happy little accident! The crystals are magnesium sulfate, available as Epsom salt at most pharmacies.
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