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Month: April 2018
Technical Tuesday: Costs of Cooling
It’s Technical Tuesday! This is a rough one, and we hope people will reach out to us and give us additional advice which we will include here. Today we are talking about the costs involved in keeping things cold, and how to mitigate them. We’ll start with the not very cold, and get colder. But […]
Foldscope
Foldscope is a paper-based microscope with a magnification of 140X and a resolution of 2 microns. You can buy 20 of them for $35 or get a fancy one for $40. Maya Anjur-Dietrich gave me an old model to play with. Included was a low mag lens, and a high mag lens with condenser. There was […]
Reddress Sunday
Happy Sunday Everyone! Old posts with erroneous or incomplete information will be updated and every Sunday we will try to make note of what updates we made. We’re calling this Reddress Sunday, and we hope you get the pun. Send us suggestions and corrections for Reddress Sunday at LabOnTheCheap@gmail.com . -The price of a BioRad […]
The Cost of Experimentalists
As a special April Fools post, today we are going to try to discuss the cost of scientists. Specifically, this will be about the cost of scientists in an academic setting. Let’s start with a Post-Doc. In many fields at most universities a Post-Doc is paid based off the NIH/NRSA guidelines. This scales with the […]