Posted on Jun 14th 2010 by ryan.
A photo of mine from the Heidelburg Castle has been used in the documentary “Louis Pasteur: The Space of life“. The image used is from the chemistry laboratory at the castle and was used as the background for the laboratory of Jean Baptiste Biot, the man who discovered the chiral nature of tartaric acid.
As you can see below, they’ve zoomed in, then shrunk it, flipped it horizontally and used it as a background for scenes showing Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot. It seems ironic to me that they used a mirror image for the background of a documentary about chirality :p
Louis Pasteur and Jean Baptiste Biot
Jean Baptiste Biot
Jean Baptiste Biot
My original photo from Heidelburg Castle
The documentary can be viewed on the LaRouche website:
My photo can be seen in the background between 6:20 – 7:46 and 19:58 and 22:02.
Posted on Mar 24th 2008 by ryan.
Our 500 MHz NMR machine quenched itself today 
Here is an awful quality photo I took of the aftermath.
To make things worse, our other machine (300 MHz one) has been out of action since late last year, so we now have no NMR access whatsoever … for any non-chemists out there, this is bad, VERY bad!
MRI Quenching
I did some YouTubing and found this video of an MRI machine quenching itself (MRI and NMR are very similar instruments).
[youtube width="350" height="292"]http://youtube.com/watch?v=1R7KsfosV-o[/youtube]
Liquid Helium
The NMR machine was full of liquid helium. The quenching involved the liquid helium evaporating very rapidly. Here’s a video about the properties of liquid helium and a video of a liquid helium fountain.
[youtube width="350" height="292"]http://youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6UJbwxBZI[/youtube]
[youtube width="350" height="292"]http://youtube.com/watch?v=kCJ24176enM[/youtube]
Posted on Aug 24th 2007 by ryan.
Thanks to Abby for the excellent video work. I’m number 98 with the black helmet and white gloves.
[MEDIA=33]
[MEDIA=34]
Posted on Aug 24th 2007 by ryan.
The New Zealand National Ice Hockey Championships are on in Dunedin at the moment. I’ll be videoing a few of the games to post on here. I’m not bothering to play as I object to the ~$200/game fee!
… Read more
