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Author: Grace
I'm a "dirt-ologist". I love studying the interface of human and environment interaction, often asking the rather rhetorical question: "Do we change the landscape, or does the landscape change us?"
I also captain the ISS Insanitekian, a startup adventure of a lifetime.
The Non-Glamorous History of Play-doh
Play-doh is fairly ubiquitous. Where there are toddlers, there is Play-doh or a variant of it. It’s one of the most beloved fidget toys for those with sensory issues, meaning it’s making it’s way into older people’s desks so they have something to manipulate while they think. So, what’s the history behind this beloved toy? …
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Lab Safety and Inspections
A recent article in Lab Manager had a brief, half page article about lab safety. In it, it mentions the importance of having regular meetings to discuss policies and protocols, holding each other accountable, and scheduling maintenance. Here at Insanitek we take a slightly different approach . Policies are trained, discussed regularly, and posted on …
Are Self Care Products Speeding Up Sexual Maturity in Girls?
Phthalates. Parabens. Pesticides. Lead. Industrial waste. All of these things are present in our lives. Clearly, the closer you live to a rural area, the more likely you’d be in contact with pesticides, and the closer you live to a city, the more likely you’ll come into contact with industrial waste. Since the early 2000s, …
The Role of SciComm in Your Science Business
In every business marketing is a priority. Every. Business. That includes your science gig. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling an environmental clean up service, engineering a product, building a specialised software programme, or any other applied science. Marketing is about communication, and you need it to not only explain to people what you do, …
Smart Planning To Do More With A Day
Hustle or Balance? The Quandary Everyone Faces Making Their Own Life
There is a lot of conflicting advice from business/life coaches out there. One will tell you to slow down, the next will tell you to embrace the hustle. Your body screams for sleep, and your brain screams to get all the ideas out. What’s the independent researcher to do? Be flexible. Seriously. Some days you …
Principles Are Your Scaffolding
Here is the webinar for March, 2019. I’m terribly sorry about the length and quality of this one. As I mentioned in the beginning of the video, I had a full-blown head cold that made everything more difficult. Thus, the video isn’t very exciting. Come to think of it, neither is the audio.
The Dilemmas of Max Planck
The time around the World Wars was an interesting one for science. A great many things were discovered, then invented off these new illuminations. There was one that stood out for his slow, creative genius that, through his belief that physics and chemistry are intertwined, discovered thermodynamics. Following the threads of evidence, Max Planck travelled …