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The Colorful Medieval World: Mixing Ancient Ink Colors
Fortunately for us, many medieval-era documents, books, and manuscripts have survived the ten or twelve centuries since the Middle Ages. Not only do these artifacts provide scholars and historians with vital information about life, laws, culture, and society of the Middle Ages, but they provide scientists and chemists with tangible evidence to tell us how …
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 …
The Nose Knows: Crazy Animal Schnozzes
From elephants to star-nose moles to proboscis monkeys to hammerhead sharks, some animals have really odd noses. Let’s talk noses. For humans, noses enable us to smell and breath, as well as providing us a place to perch our sunglasses. Animals rely more on their noses, particularly their sense of smell. It enables them to …
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, …
An Insanely Simple Breakdown of the Internet
The Internet has permeated so much into our everyday lives that we can hardly imagine a day without it. But what is the internet really? Let’s break it down until it’s insanely simple! The internet is a communication line between computers. This connection is established by using telephone lines, ethernet cables, fibre optic cables, electromagnetic …
2019 Transparency Report
We heard you when you told us how useful the transparency reports were to you. But, we told you that doing them every month was a bit repetitive at this stage of business life, so putting things in a quarterly form be easier for us to make and still have a lot of information. So, …
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 …
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 …