Comments on: Live From The Lab http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/ Where science collides with life, slams into culture, crashes with politics, and gets totaled. Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:28:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Congratulations Dr. Lowry! | The Intersection | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-47726 Congratulations Dr. Lowry! | The Intersection | Discover Magazine Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:29:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-47726 [...] a kind word no matter what the DNA sequence looks like on any given day. And he always supports my crazy ideas with boundless encouragement and [...] [...] a kind word no matter what the DNA sequence looks like on any given day. And he always supports my crazy ideas with boundless encouragement and [...]

]]> By: Any Photographers Out There? | The Intersection | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-31393 Any Photographers Out There? | The Intersection | Discover Magazine Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:38:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-31393 [...] had to take the corresponding images down when responses continued pouring in long after the experiment at NYU! I also greatly appreciate the help of my awesome volunteers from the [...] [...] had to take the corresponding images down when responses continued pouring in long after the experiment at NYU! I also greatly appreciate the help of my awesome volunteers from the [...]

]]> By: Curious Wavefunction http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23199 Curious Wavefunction Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:35:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23199 Of course :D, but <i>how</i>? Of course :D , but how?

]]> By: Sheril Kirshenbaum http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23144 Sheril Kirshenbaum Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:53:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23144 Carefully. Carefully.

]]> By: Curious Wavefunction http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23143 Curious Wavefunction Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:30:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23143 How do they insulate your head from the liquid helium? How do they insulate your head from the liquid helium?

]]> By: John Kwok http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23055 John Kwok Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:42:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23055 @ Lab Lemming - For a moment I thought she was being inserted with Borg implants! Resistance is futile.... @ Lab Lemming -

For a moment I thought she was being inserted with Borg implants! Resistance is futile….

]]> By: Check Your Head | The Intersection | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23041 Check Your Head | The Intersection | Discover Magazine Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:04:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23041 [...] Blogs / The Intersection « Live From The Lab [...] [...] Blogs / The Intersection « Live From The Lab [...]

]]> By: Lab Lemming http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23029 Lab Lemming Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:42:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23029 Did you emerge with superpowers? Did you emerge with superpowers?

]]> By: Sheril Kirshenbaum http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23003 Sheril Kirshenbaum Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:14:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-23003 Rich, The machine isn't turning, but liquid helium is in the apparatus around my head. grasshoppa, Well, we haven't seen anything quite like that yet, but the results are definitely interesting so far... with lots more to come. Rich,
The machine isn’t turning, but liquid helium is in the apparatus around my head.

grasshoppa,
Well, we haven’t seen anything quite like that yet, but the results are definitely interesting so far… with lots more to come.

]]> By: grasshoppa http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-22972 grasshoppa Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:08:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/07/06/live-from-the-lab/#comment-22972 This all just brought back a memory from 30+ yrs. ago in a high school science lab I had: the teacher was showing us a device to measure galvanic skin response, which she hooked up to the fingers of one of the boys, Walter, in the class and showed how the measuring needle fluctuated depending how he moved. Someone in the crowd piped up asking, "Would it effect the needle at all if Mary [the prettiest girl in class!] were to walk up and kiss Walter?" Just the verbal question alone caused the needle to jump off the chart! Don't remember how long it took Walter to live that day down... This all just brought back a memory from 30+ yrs. ago in a high school science lab I had: the teacher was showing us a device to measure galvanic skin response, which she hooked up to the fingers of one of the boys, Walter, in the class and showed how the measuring needle fluctuated depending how he moved. Someone in the crowd piped up asking, “Would it effect the needle at all if Mary [the prettiest girl in class!] were to walk up and kiss Walter?” Just the verbal question alone caused the needle to jump off the chart! Don’t remember how long it took Walter to live that day down…

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