No Radioactive or Stable Isotopes Allowed!

Apparently, neither radioactive nor stable elements (nor any "materials of any kind that have been used with isotopes") are allowed in Jennings Hall at Ohio State University. I took a picture as proof.

Scientist of the Day

The scientist of the day, who I have chosen only because of the awesome match between his name and an article he wrote, is Ferric Fang, who studies iron. An e-mail from the Annals of Improbable Research pointed out this bit of awesomeness because of the following article:

The Role of Ferritins in the Physiology of Salmonella enterica sv. Typhimurium: A Unique Role for Ferritin B in Iron-Sulphur Cluster Repair and Virulence, Ferric C. Fang et al., Molecular Microbiology, Volume 63, Issue 5, March 2007 pages 1495?1507.

Japanese cover of "The Elements"

The Annals of Improbable Research just posted on Facebook a Japanese cover of Tom Lehrer's "The Elements"---now with more elements and a Japanese pop style. Yup, I think I've seen everything now.

The Elements

This is just an awesome taxi. (For an added bonus, take a look at the cab driver and the expression on his face.)

To see what other pictures have recently made the photoblog, take a look here.

'Overseen' in Oxford

In this blog entry, I'll incorrectly use the term overseen as a visual analog of overhead. But I like it, so I'm going to do it anyway.

As many of you---perhaps most of you---know, I've spent the majority of my days since Monday September 8th marking Masters dissertations. Today I got down to the last two ("Not more than two...") dissertations and the final one, which I just finished, had a very pleasant surprise. Namely, it included the invention of a new chemical element: criterium.