Time to Get the Learn-on

And now for your daily dose of education! Here you can just look at the pretty pictures which are either related to my academic interests or that I just thought were cool.

Note:  This was back in undergrad, but I'm too lazy to redo the page.  Now that I'm in grad school, my research interests are completely different than whatever I have here, but they're still fun pictures.

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  And today, Scientific American brings you a picture of Schrodinger's cat, shown as being both alive and dead. Pretty neat, huh?

  
  
  references Thesis Chem 540 Lecture questions paper

  Okay, according to Science, which is where I got this picture, this is "combined fluorescence images of focal adhesions in a stationary fibroblast." If I thought about it, I could understand that, but I just think it's a neat picture.

  
  
  

  Also from Science, this is a 3D image of ATP, complete with shadowing to enhance the aesthetic appeal of biochemistry. :-)

  
  
  

  "Munch, munch, munch...yummy! said the macrophage as it digested the evil bacteria. "Hmm, tastes like chicken..."

  
  
  

  Okay, I really have no idea what this is. Supposedly it has something to do with a theory of "self-reproducing inflationary universes," but don't ask me. I don't get it. :-)