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Biologists are from Mars, chemists are from Venus?

eurekalert.org — “Plays well with others.” That popular phrase on a T-shirt is being taken to a whole new level in higher education these days, as experts in a variety of fields increasingly must work together to address some of society's biggest challenges, from a warming planet to cancer.

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  • geekchic, on 05/02/2008, -1/+5you woke up to post that comment though.
  • Bonksnp, on 05/02/2008, -2/+6Researchers researching how Researchers research with each other.

    MY HEAD ASPLODE.
  • jimmy17, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3My philosophy is if it doesn't come off when im cleaning it it wont come off when i'm doing a reaction in it.
    But then again we have a sonic cleaning bath so its probably true.
    /Chemist
    //Very boring
  • WhittierPoet, on 05/02/2008, -1/+4Well thank goodness that I'm a biochemist.
  • ryannerd, on 05/02/2008, -0/+3Dugg for the picture of the 3 nerds. Isn't the guy in the pic from "Revenge of the Nerds"?
  • jimmy17, on 05/02/2008, -0/+2Lol, very true. Also more accurate hazard assessments would be nice.

    DCM - When it inevitably melts through your gloves it wont really hurt at all but you will ultimately get hand cancer...
  • br0wnstar, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Popular phrase?
  • NYCowboy, on 05/02/2008, -1/+2I have worked in both types of labs and I have to say it is so true. If you don't believe me ask a biologist and a chemist how to clean glassware and you will understand.
  • boombye, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1You mean Louis Skolnick? Haha, he actually does in look like him in that pic.
  • Barclay1188, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1"IT'S NOT A TUMAHH!"
  • novenator, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1lol, how can ppl bury this comment, its hilarious
  • exYU, on 05/02/2008, -2/+3Come on people now, smile on your brother. Everybody get together try to love one another right now.
  • eir574, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1I would love to see a materials and methods section of a paper written with all of these little details that describe exactly what we actually did. My lab has just had to redesign a large number of experiments because some idiot miscounted the number of microarrays we needed and came up with a number that's far too low. There's no room in the budget now to fix the mistake, so we're trying to figure out the best suboptimal way to move forward. I once spun down some cells, and while this didn't result in a pellet, the balance tube had a nice one. I went with it.
  • Angostura, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1I think it was Rutherford who said "there are three types of scientists: Physicists, Chemists and stamp collectors".

    Of course this was said during a period when biology was still largely at the discovery, rather than the analytical phase.

    /molecular biologist in my youth.
  • keltin, on 05/02/2008, -0/+1Going to become a productive citizen now, you say? :)
  • jefffiebs, on 02/09/2009, -0/+0That guy at the end is totally from Revenge of the Nerds. I think this is a scam or maybe a future movie?
    http://highqualitymoviedownloads.info
  • itsmattgw, on 05/02/2008, -4/+4and proctologists are from Uranus
  • NYCowboy, on 05/02/2008, -1/+1I would buy that shirt
  • Shrooms27, on 05/02/2008, -2/+2CANCER? I'm a tumor I'm a tumor! I'm a tumor I'm a tumor! I'm a tumor I'm a tumor! OH OH OH I'M A TUMOR
  • keltin, on 05/02/2008, -1/+1Being a fan of Schwarzenegger's diction, I prefer, "I'm a Tumahh!"
  • VAXcat, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0 I clean glassware with piranha solution...any situation where a mistake means death or disfigurement is always exciting!
  • grungefan, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0They were too busy making out with their Marilyn Monrobots.
  • chemistryslave, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0I think even us biochemists realize that we're more biologists than chemists, at least that's the way that it is in my school. The biology department has an abundance of biochemists, and the chem department has one.
  • Schweppes7T4, on 05/02/2008, -0/+0...what about biochemists?
  • solarweasel, on 05/02/2008, -2/+1Delightfully insipid!
  • matschig, on 05/02/2008, -3/+1LAme, BURIED.
  • aricks10, on 05/02/2008, -2/+0Gah I can't find the shirt with that saying. Anyone know where it can be found? "Biologists are from mars, chemists are from Venus" I mean.
  • ClawBlade, on 05/02/2008, -4/+0Usually people wake up from falling asleep. When they don't it's called a coma. Or death.
  • selmer, on 05/02/2008, -6/+1I fell asleep reading this article.

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