in uppsala, this museum houses relics owned by the university, including an anatomical theatre lighted by the sun (the weird round roof thing in the middle of the building), collections from egypt, old medicinal technlogical insturments, archeological findings from nearby viking graves, and other nerdish odds and ends.
the sun lighted anatomical room
its quite a large display so plan your time properly, we didnt get to see everything before it closed for the day.
first stop, the theatre
very cool. you normally only see or hear of these things in books and movies.
the steps are steep and narrow and high
one fresh specimen today!
digs from the viking burial grounds.
viking masks, they even have a mask for the beard!
it has been predicted along time ago that the 'BN dacing' will be broken. hiak hiak (Malaysian joke)
nice spiral staircase.
where oxygen, carbon dioxide, and chlorine was discovered!! in this normal looking white building
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many famous people worked here before.
in fact, was talking to someone in industry and he said that right now, Uppsala U is drawing more governement reserach dollars as compared to any other university in Sweden. Its not only a historical significant place for science, its still a strong force now.
things about my lab:
cupboards well stocked
no need to make your own sterile water and PBS
Huge tables and plenty of Macs (i like the table part, but not so much the mac part)
Door code to each lab, which sometimes gets confusing because you need to remember so many codes.
Coffee machine, free flow of caffeine!
Free flow of consumables and media.
no need to fill tips!
huge autoclave machine, and autoclaving service, just leave your stuff in the tray and it will come back tomorrow autoclaved and dried. nice.
whatever media you need!
anyone noticed the new weird media bottles?
Shared labcoats, no hogging for coats, just choose the size that fits and
Cool hood!
my corridormate, Vivi 'the french girl' left sweden after 6 months here on attachment. She's actually training in France to get her diploma in engineering but worked in Stockholm in a biological lab. So it was a totally new experience for her.
so lots of people came, corridor mates, hostel mates from other floors, French friends, and work friends.
some girls got together to give her a Söder beanie. its a private joke.
pretty maids in a row
The Italians: Pronto!!!
More Italians
The Iraqi
Germans jumping about.
photos taken about a month ago.
i realized that real winter is really in febuary and march
december is not that cold, its just dark
but feb is the month of snow, the month of chills.
the river outside my hostel froze over, and so we went to visit it.
so solid you could run around on it
sitting on water
crazy ducks
crazy dogs running around
