I'm currently adding technique videos to supplement the penicillin post I'm working on. I'm hoping to have that posted August 6 (Alexander Fleming's birthday).

You will notice that the blog was launched a couple of weeks ago, and I've posted something every few days. Is that insufficient?

lol. yes, I am as excited as you are. beautiful, smart youth in our ranks...rational...maybe the world is not ending...

I was enthusiastic and then disappointed. So, my adverse reaction was harsher than my initial response was glowing. I already found her blog from her earlier comments here on another topic.

My first summer job was washing glassware for a cytogenetics lab. Later, on the recommendation of a libertarian scientist, I subscribed to _Industrial Research and Development_ and from there, several others. The point is that I think that I know what is in the little envelope she waved around, but never identified. Perhaps it is just something else that you can buy at the zymurgy store. She never says why mere Dawn dishwashing soap and hot (boiling) water is not enough.

Then, there was the segment shot upside down. I thought that it was going to lead to something cute like pouring upwards ... but it never did. She not only made the mistake, but she did not correct it.

I am a sucker for merit and meritocracy. I expect a Ph.D. to be if not smarter then at least more competent than I am. I seldom confront them directly. Long years ago, an FBI investigation into me included something like this: "... thinks he knows more than his teachers, but has no influence with his peers." Some years later, before I completed any degrees, I was working at White Sands Missile Range, riding in with a young Ph.D. my own age. He said that he was on a project where everyone had a doctorate and it was a relief. "Why?" "I am sick and tired of people with master's degrees always trying to prove that they are just as smart as Ph.D.s. They are just as smart; but I am sick of them always trying to prove it."

So, my silence is never heard, only my trying to prove it. For that, I can only apologize.