• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Me OMW (on my way) to cut open the cancer treatment machine and put a pellet of cobalt 60 in my mouth:

    (The professor did not specify the kind of lab and the kind of equipment)

  • @[email protected]
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    582 months ago

    In an undergrad electronics lab class, the TA suggested I put the function generator leads on my tongue, and play with the parameters. Obviously I know what an applied DC voltage “tastes” like, but he suggested AC, sweeping the frequency. Sure enough, above a certain frequency (want to say 10s to 100s of Hz?), I couldn’t feel it at all.

    Fun stuff.

    • @[email protected]
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      412 months ago

      I know enough about academia, electrical safety, people and hygiene to find this plausible, reckless, funny and revolting respectively, but not enough about any to know which should win.

  • @ArbitraryValue
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    2 months ago

    One time, I was on a date and I was telling a story about a bossy graduate student. I said “And he didn’t even have his PhD!” which didn’t impress my date, who didn’t even have her PhD.

      • @[email protected]
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        192 months ago

        Every year you get warned “dont pipette by mouth” because you will sometimes find some 120 year old lab guide that says “pipette by mouth 13ml of 3M NaOh”. Those og chemists went hard.

  • RBG
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    162 months ago

    Maybe not the ethidium bromide equipment though.

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      42 months ago

      Only for special occasions and when company is over. Bust out the good glassware (just not literally).

  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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    122 months ago

    I had both of these in A-level biology somehow. One week we were taught by the ex nurse who was constantly exasperated by us not knowing stuff like how coronary bypass surgeries are performed, and the next a former primary school teacher who would have us doing cutting and sticking exercises on ATP transfer or DNA sequencing. Neither particularly improved our understanding of biology.

  • @Apytele
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    62 months ago

    My parents put me in tutoring and used to punish me for only being one class ahead in math. Did they maybe try to control my violent sister more or care that the other two were routinely calling me stupid? No, just punish me for being lazy.

  • @Imgonnatrythis
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    42 months ago

    Yo prof! Do I get to pick the equipment?