I would have been quite annoyed at that. Hell, I even get annoyed when the people near my lab bench have a bunch of glassware (UNLABELED) scattered around and encroaching on my workspace. It's not like we're heating 12M HCl every day, but even if we're using .15M KI in water, it's not that hard to label things and keep a lab space organized! of course, some of these people have to be reminded about using the right disposal container...

but then, we're not PhD students

yeah. it's hell. I think a lot of students pay more fore textbooks than they do for food. Since I'm a science major, I'm usually required to get the new editions, which are twice the cost of the previous edition. Of course, most of the information in the old edition is outdated...

I can definitely see how this could be useful, especially in research labs. but with budgets in the state they are, it'll be years before public universities will get a chance to even think about applying this technology.

I think it's a good idea to draw attention to the issue, but I dunno how much coverage it will get. I know the news where I live tends to focus on local politics and crime, the weather, sports, and current national stuff.

of course, they might just throw it in as a 'local event,' ignoring the fact that it's going on around the country.

"If you knew where I was, then how do you know how fast I was going?"

Yeah, the species studied is Spermophilus beecheyi, the California Ground Squirrel.
The grey squirrels in the US are Sciurus griseus (the Western Grey squirrel), Sciurus arizonensis (Arizona grey) and Sciurus carolinensis (the Eastern Grey squirrel), and the 'red' (more brownish) squirrels in the US are Sciurus niger (the fox squirrel, pretty much all over North America) and Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (red squirrel). The red squirrels in the UK are most likely Sciurus vulgaris (the Eurasian red squirrel) and the grey ones are likely Sciurus carolinensis as well, as the species was introduced to Europe.

I honestly think that the squirrels around my house are smarter than my dogs (of course that's not saying much). And there are sooooo many crazy squirrel stories I could tell...

Suffice to say, once one of the squirrels stole my coffee, I had very little trouble with choosing my subject for an ethology project.

That scene (and to a further extent, that movie) have pretty much formed my opinion on 3D tech: Use it to enhance the movie without being distracting. and don't make the whole damn thing about 'omigod! it's 3d!.' When Coraline first came out, my friends and I saw it in 3D. the effects didn't jump out at you and scream 3D- they just sort of lifted everything to a different level (the one exception: the big needle in the very beginning). I've watched Coraline several other times- a couple times on my family's HD tv, and a few times on my laptop. I could tell the difference between the the 2 and 3D versions, but I think the most important thing is the fact that it doesn't matter if it's in two or three dimensions. The movie is still great. The animation is still amazing. The 3D efffects were subtle enough that they didn't affect the movie or animation, but they were vivid enough to make it worth the extra $2 to see it in 3D. Other than that, I tend to avoid 3d stuff. Even if glasses aren't needed, my vision is bad enough that my eyes start to hurt. and if glasses are needed? I have enough trouble wearing chemical safety goggles over my regular glasses- and I'm almost blind without them.

so THAT'S why all my jeans have scorch marks on them....

I love to read, and I'm a really really fast reader, so whenever I go to the bookstore i get as many books as I can afford to (usually about 15 if they're paperbacks), and it takes me maybe a week to read them all if I have a lot of other stuff to do. and no, I do not have a kindle. it would be amazing for travel, reading in bed, etc, but I would spend all my money in one day on ebooks.

where I live, the seasons are: Cold/rainy and Really hot/dry. so, zombies would rot and melt, or they would mummify and be very flammable. for the tougher zombies, I'd just use the swords I have or just use a chainsaw.

A Cryptonomicon movie would be amazing, but I don't think that it would end up being a major movie- too easy to mess up, and I can't imagine that many screenplay writers or directors could fully translate the span or depth of Cryptonomicon.

quite possibly. or russia, or north korea.

now that would be something. scientific journals would explode.