Great news for 22nd century anthropologists!

And Obama's dad was a drunk-driving Muslim homeopath. What's your point?

AC is correct. Make: Electronics is a great resource, and will definitely aid the submitter in understanding what all those little magic widgets in the robot kits do.

Also, if you need to learn how to solder, check out EEVBlog's three soldering tutorial videos on Youtube.
http://www.eevblog.com/2011/06/19/eevblog-180-soldering-tutorial-part-1-tools/

I'm kind of surprised we haven't seem more robot vacuum kits become available. Seems like the kind of thing everybody would want, something that is useful AND tweakable.

Only if you like soldering and bending metal. If you're a software guy, the coding is the fun part.

I've never worked with biofilms, but I was a part of a research group that did, so hopefully I am remembering this correctly.

They're actually very similar in makeup, mucins and biofilms. The way mucins are supposed to work is to preferentially bind to the external saccharides on cellular walls, inhibiting the microbes from attaching with their pili and thereby stopping the biofilm from ever gaining a foothold.

Most mucins are o-glycoproteins, while the biofilms are typically polysaccharides (very interlinked and stiff, unlike the intermittently-crosslinked and thereby floppy o-glycoproteins).

Of course, there are plenty of OTHER things on which biofilms will form, like iron and other metals, by using siderophores and whatnot. But that's not really relevant to this discussion.

Unless you have a basement.

I'd much rather see that than what's on Tumblr.

Don't pick on him, not his fault he has trisomy of the 21st chromosome pair.

He/she undoubtedly got a one-line thank you for "all the hard work" in the preface.

Our classes apparently are different. We didn't have TIME to talk. Lecture started at 1:00 PM. Lecture is supposed to be out at 1:50. Lecture runs over until 1:57 because that's how chemists roll. Next prof is waiting outside tapping his or her foot impatiently. No time for tea and crumpets when there's science afoot!

We also had course administrators, so there could be six sections of general chemistry lecture that all did the same assignments, and therefore could work together and study together. FB brought us all into the same loop, and it let us all communicate with each other.

Nowadays, our university uses Blackboard to give us the same option to email classmates, so it's not like it was just a trend for introverts.

Because you could connect with classmates that you didn't necessarily know. There was a good 18-month period where FB was very useful for setting up study sessions and whatnot.

(Also, you could find out if that redhead two rows down was single)

Really? Because everybody hates driving in rush hour traffic, and pretty much everybody has to.

(Yes, I'm being Amerocentric)

Manhunt? Hahahaha. Police are too busy arresting high school honor students making Drano bombs in empty fields to be bothered with petty criminals.

Actually, it's the same food.