I finished some much needed yardwork over the weekend. My compost bin is now topped off with the copious spoils of a battle with overgrown straw and overambitious blackberry vines. That’s enough mass to get the compost into the thermophilic stage; I’m looking forward to seeing it steam in the mornings.
What’s really cool is that [...]
I was busy figuring out weird ways to make a cheap, safe manual centrifuge. The awesome wife said, “We have one of those, it’s called a salad spinner.” I’m a lucky guy!
Update: This will be for separating, say, milk curds, not making pellets of Vibrio cholerae, so don’t worry, it’s still safe to eat [...]
Someone in the previous lab session threw out my plates, so no data on what’s in my kittie’s guts, and if their different diets affect what lives in them. Had to spend most of the lab sitting on my thumbs waiting for another group to finish so I could use their plate.
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I started two Winogradsky columns this past weekend.
They’re really simple to set up and were invented by Sergei Winogradsky, one of the founding fathers of soil microbiology. The basic concept is that you get some mud and water, put it all in a semi-sealed tube exposed to light, and watch as bugs set up shop.
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