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Science & Snark

Science & Snark

You might recall the page I created (and linked to this blog) where I post awesome science-y stuff that I find around the web. Well, I've been inspired by a friend to create a Twitter account where I can post things as I find them! Should be an awesome venue where I can share things with others and keep an archive for myself.

If you Twitter, follow the link above and 'follow' me, won't you??

The Cadaver Calculator

Ignoring the dating site crap, this is awesome.

$4575.00The Cadaver Calculator - Find out how much your body is worth.

Created by OnePlusYou - Free Dating Site

Science AND Tattoos?? Illustrated Lists?? I can hardly contain myself !

Discover's Science Tattoo Emporium

AND

How To Tell If Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You

I'm learning Scanning Electron Microscopy!

Dual screen of a leg joint & a blow-up of it (SEM), originally uploaded by redmeg8.

And it is COOL! Could you imagine the potential for subject matter? Think of the drawings I could do! The detail is simply incredible.

Here's a set of the rest of the images I've done so far. Enjoy!

You CAN go home again...

I gotta admit... a few years back, hell, even a year ago, I'm not sure I would've been able to see what the future had in store for me. Now I know. It's pretty amazing.

I've been working on my Bachelor of Science degree in Biology & Chemistry for 2 years now at Eastern Mich. University (actually, it's a 2nd Bachelors) and am going to graduate in April... well, as of last October, I have been in contact with my "old" department at Wayne State School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy.

Old? Yes. I began my graduate studies there in 2005 and left after a year filled with guilt, confusion, and regret... mostly confusion. I had never left anything in that manner before. It left me floating in uncertainty for a few years as I considered medical school, graduate school in a different discipline, being done with academia, etc.

Well, all of the sudden last fall, at 2 in the morning one night, it hit me. I admitted to myself what my pie-in-the-sky goals are and I swallowed hard realizing that I needed to go back to Wayne State, hat in hand, and ask to be reinstated in my former program.

So, I did just that and have been working on it ever since. Let me just tell you that I am a firm believer in not only 'everything happens for a reason', but that if you are honest with yourself and take chances related to what you're meant to do in life, the 'fates' will conspire to open doors and make the way for you.

I'm back into Wayne State as of this summer/fall! I'll be a second year and will need to work my butt off, but, that's ok. I can see my goals firmly and they are so exciting, scary, and revolutionary, that I can see this through now.

I'll tell you more about them sometime. For now, I think I'll keep them under my hat. Of course, if we meet up in person, I might spill it ;p 

Wish me luck!

(now if I can just do well this last semester and graduate... sigh)

Beyond Labcoats and Goggles... Science Shopping

 

I've created another new off-shoot from this here blog: http://redmeg8.typepad.com/meganderings/beyond-labcoats-and-goggles-science-wearables.html

I'm collecting awesome science-related goods from around the web... all for you and those geeky types you need to buy things for. :)

It's in its infancy, so, please check back often for more stuff (there's a permanent link under 'pages' there in the left column) - it might get its own site some day, even. Dream big!

Enjoy!

Nominate me for a Shorty!

If you like my Twitter updates, or follow me over there, think about nominating me for science Twitter-er of the year :)  I will love you forever.

I've nominated (not only myself - dork!), but Anne Ruthmann in the personal category, shivvy in politics, and woxy_live in music.

Skull-A-Day Project

Check out the Skull-A-Day project by clicking the image above!
This person's (sorry, I couldn't find his/her name!) creating a skull image everyday for a year and what's been come up with so far is really great.  Thumbs up from this skull fan. ;p

Presently, my life boils down to this cross-stitch...

Chemistry, originally uploaded by Quistak.

Isn't this cross-stitch the best thing ever, though? I've become totally addicted to using my Subversive Cross-Stitch book lately and I found that, of course, Flickr has a group for it. :)

I think my next one is going to be the "Don't Make Me Cut You" piece. Gonna hang that on my studio door.

 

MRS. Crick, I presume

I wish I had known this before she died. I'm not sure why I feel that way, but, unsung "heroes" have always been interesting to me. And, as a medical illustrator, I'm shocked I didn't know this before...

Odile Crick drew the first published version of the double-helix, her husband's Nobel Prize-winning discovery ... she died last week of cancer.