Researchers need access to previously reported dangers. The service allows the research community to submit, store and share hazardous chemical reaction information. The library has been seeded by members of The Pistoia Alliance, with a number of incidents from their archives.
Members can add and share their chemistry reaction-related incidents and learnings — and the content is free to download and integrate for use with internal informatics systems, such as electronic lab notebooks or inventory systems. These systems can also be configured to alert scientists if there is a potential known safety risk before they carry out an experiment.
Since the majority of safety information falls in the precompetitive arena, sharing this kind of experience should be straightforward. Moreover, in cases that do involve proprietary components, the Chemical Safety Library offers a function to convey these important safety learnings without revealing company intellectual property. Our library service could help increase laboratory safety, but we need the life sciences community to embrace this effort. Following the launch of the Chemical Safety Library Service in March , requests for access have been overwhelming.
The positive response shows just how much the industry is looking for such a resource. How did he Ffirth manage to ingest all of this without falling ill? Well, we now know that Yellow Fever is spread by mosquitoes. So maybe Ffirth was vindicated? Is this just a disgusting experiment gone right? Not exactly. We also know now that yellow fever can be spread from human to human through direct bloodstream contact, and Ffirth was deliberately introducing samples to his bloodstream.
Or maybe he just got extremely lucky and the samples he used were virus-free. In recent years, however, the success of Biosphere 2 has been re-evaluated , with some scientists believing that the base message—that humans can live in harmony with our biosphere—was a win in and of itself. And even if the vast investment was viewed as a mistake, the underlying idea remains solid: Similar experiments have been recently conducted to see if we can sustain human life on Mars.
Although basketball was originally played with soccer balls, a leather ball has been used since Spalding began manufacturing sport-specific balls in The basketball has been tweaked here and there over the years, but the modifications apparently went too far when the NBA experimented with a microfiber ball in Sounds good in theory, but players absolutely hated it.
One issue was that the ball apparently became much more slippery than a traditional leather ball when it was wet, which happened frequently when sweaty basketball players were constantly handling it. Some players even reported that their hands were getting cut due to the increased friction of the microfiber surface. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban also commissioned a study from the physics department at the University of Texas at Austin, which found that the ball bounced 5 to 8 percent lower than a traditional leather ball and bounced up to 30 percent more erratically.
Feeling deflated, the NBA officially announced they were pulling the ball from play on December 11, —less than three months after its debut in a game. As an undergrad at Harvard in the late s and early '60s, Ted Kaczynski participated in a three-year-long study run by Henry A. Murray that explored the effects of stress on the human psyche. After being asked to submit an essay about their worldview and personal philosophies, Kaczynski and 21 other students were interrogated under bright lights, wired to electrodes, and completely torn down for their beliefs.
In short, the man who would eventually kill three people and injure over 20 more with his homemade bombs was subjected to repeated psychological torture. Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich managed to draw a straight line from human orgasms to the weather to alien invasion.
This energy was supposedly responsible for everything from the weather to why the sky is blue. Reich believed orgasms were a discharge of orgone, and that through the manipulation of this energy you could treat neuroses and even cancer.
As bizarre as this all sounds, Reich went even further in the late s, when he became convinced that aliens were spraying the earth with a specific type of radiation to prevent us from using this powerful energy. In order to save the world, he and his son built Cloudbusters, a row of tubes attached to hoses immersed in water and aimed at the sky. The water, they believed, would absorb the radiation. Did the experiment work? They ordered Reich's various machines and apparatus destroyed, and had him jailed for trying to smuggle them out of state.
Laboratory notebooks must contain detailed information if an experiment that works is to be consistently reproduced. Everything should be recorded. Even so-called simple things such as the water used can impact an experiment one way or another. Be consistent! If your experiments require the use of distilled, deionized water, always use distilled, deionized water.
Avoid taking short cuts. If an incubation period is 30 minutes, be patient and wait for the entire incubation period to be completed before moving on to the next step. When you plan an experiment, know what your time investment will be. Failure to optimally maintain equipment is another mistake that can plague the most seasoned investigators.
Standard maintenance is critical, especially when equipment is designed to protect users from environmental hazards e. A personal pet peeve is the failure to calibrate micropipettes used to measure minute volumes of reagents. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, a set of related mistakes that occur in laboratory settings are caused by failure to adhere to good laboratory practices. While most of us are good citizens who try to adhere to and advocate for these practices, we sometimes fail to comply with what our laboratory safety officers tell us to do for our own good.
Never smelling or tasting any chemicals or other lab samples for any reason. Never working alone or unsupervised. Never working when you are exhausted or emotionally upset. Never leave experiments running unattended in the laboratory.
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