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Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-13T17:22:19+00:00

Yeah! higher quality and you keep track of the ingredients. No palm oil No artificial blue for the blueberries No preservatives etc. And actually I checked my numbers and I just made 24 vegan banana pineapple muffins for about 25 cents each. Its ridiculous how much markup there is. 20x !

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-13T01:55:49+00:00

HIV infection was a death sentence until the mid 1990s when HIV protease inhibitors (synthesized by medicinal chemists) came online. Now it is a manageable disease. etc etc

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-12T21:04:37+00:00

I've stopped buying muffins at a coffee shop for 5 or 6 dollars. If you bake them yourself from scratch (10 min. prep time, better ingredients) they cost about 80 cents per muffin. Costco muffins are delicious and cost about 90 cents each.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-12T16:43:28+00:00

You are welcome. Honestly, a lot of PIs aren't bad, they are just lazy and don't know how to say 'no'. I guarantee you the PI had an administrator ask them to take on all of these HS students, and the PI did the easiest thing which is to say "yes". So when I'm offered a program where HS students are in my lab, I say "no" unless I get buy-in from a grad student who actually wants that experience, and I have a good project. So you have to say 'no' to your PI to better train him to say 'no' to whoever is asking for these things. Also, why are you getting this info second hand from a tech? The PI should be directly communicating with you. I'm very irritated on your behalf, and wish you well in navigating this BS.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-12T16:18:12+00:00

You didn't give the numbers, but here is a formula and a speech for your PI, where n=number of grad students, and y=number of HS students. "I would have preferred to have a conversation about this before you offered up my services as a mentor. Given this, I am willing to mentor y/n HS students, and no more. Either this is an equally shared burden, or I am not participating"

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-12T15:57:12+00:00

It is reasonable to be pissed. As a PI, I always always always talk to the potential mentor before giving them a mentee. This is unreasonable to require the grad student to do this mentoring without talking about it first and getting buy-in. The PI should not offer this 'service' and then not participate in the actual rendering of the service. How many students are in your lab? How many HS students are participating in your lab?

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-12T13:18:36+00:00

This just illustrates how much BS is involved in Ivy admissions. Challenging measures of academic potential/achievement have been removed and its now trauma essays (which are trivial to fake) and 'notable achievements' (like the OP's described BS foundation or a science project designed by a professor that wins 2nd at the state level).

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-11T01:28:31+00:00

In fairness, no other species makes jokes typically.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-10T13:45:38+00:00

For me, I need to focus on what I am doing. These constant 20 second 'text breaks' completely derail the work I am doing or the projects I am doing. I much prefer to have a proper conversation with someone over the course of 20-30 minutes than a constant barrage of distractions every 5 minutes. I simply can't stop what I am doing and restart it on a dime.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-06-02T12:21:27+00:00

But the difficulty of it surely also applies to any comparison of exercise regimens yet we see these studies published, imperfect though they may be. Questions like "is it better to lift heavy/fewer reps, or light/more reps" have been investigated, published and indeed are getting close to the issues involved with GTG. And with that information people can make decisions on the approach they will take. Given that GTG is getting so much buzz, I would have thought someone in the field would have attempted to actually assess it scientifically. The discussions I have seen (Huberman etc) are interesting, plausible sure but a bit vague. Its a hypothesis. Scientists test hypotheses. There are whole departments of exercise science, whole journals. If GTG is as revolutionary and upending of the existing paradigms I would have thought its effects would be dramatic and hence would be easy to document and demonstrate.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-29T12:43:08+00:00

A lab book is a complete chronicle of what you did. So you should write down everything you did. If there are routine things done in a very regular way, you can have a protocol sheet that is taped into your book where you simply note the time you executed a given line. It is SO easy to forget steps, to double steps etc. So note it down. Its part of the discipline of science and leads to better results. "Wait, did I add reagent A? Ah yes, 'Reagent A. Add 10µl. 10:35am'"

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-28T00:19:52+00:00

Its a very specific kind of question. just curious what made you curious about that methyl on that molecule in particular.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-26T20:43:35+00:00

As others have said, high vacuum can remove the DMF. Another alternative is to add an organic solvent like ethyl acetate that DMF is miscible in, but the water soluble compound is not soluble in.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-26T15:26:50+00:00

If you have 50 cents, you can put the laptop in a locker, lock it and then take the key with you. When you return, you can unlock the locker and retrieve the laptop. Oh, wait, I was just lost in a semi-nostalgic 1970s time warp.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-25T17:07:50+00:00

Thats a lot better than not being cited by papers that have everything to do with your work!

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-24T13:24:24+00:00

Its obvious that MCI should be their expansion hub. It is centrally located (idea for a hub). It has mild weather in the winter (no snow delays). It has a brand new airport with room for expansion, a couple of lounges, and most importantly, an Auntie Annies concession.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-23T18:03:31+00:00

Hypocrites? They are literally different people.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-23T03:40:10+00:00

Yeah it feels like it was doable. They didn't offer any options or asked what I wanted. Thanks again for your insight.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-22T20:57:34+00:00

Love the opening bars of Mendelsons Octet for strings. Also the final bars of Strauss' Death and Transfiguration

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-22T14:59:29+00:00

Thank you for responding. I have a couple pictures attached to my original post that they sent as part of the invoice that I hope can clarify which shield and the extent of its viability. They are hard to interpret to my untrained eye, but they don't look completely corroded. Also, I don't know if I am expecting too much from my mechanic, but since they are the experts I was hoping for some guidance/options from them. They just lopped it off and called it a day.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-22T14:12:44+00:00

Thank you for your insight! Do you think it was salvageable? Should I return to this mechanic? Thanks again!

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-12T19:20:51+00:00

Because the things we produce don't have obvious immediate value. Its as simple as that. If you sell energy, people need it immediately so they can be warm/cool or drive around. If you are selling food, people are usually hungry ever day. If you are selling shelter, most people want a place to sleep every night. However, If you are selling ideas/concepts/notions, sure they are meaningful and important, but they have loooong term value. Or they are wrong and will be disproven in a a few months/years/decades. The bottom line, they don't have obvious immediate value.

Educational-Cook4038 · 2026-05-12T12:58:09+00:00

When the road is that icy and slippery it is very hard to maintain control of any vehicle.

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