After the serious Lab Waste video by a local blogger whom we all know and love, here is The Safety Song:
Starring the world-famous Bokor Monster.
Courtesy of The Sounds of Science, from creative members of my alma mater.
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A Developing Passion by Heather Etchevers
Sharing both life experiences and my interest in developmental biology, with a common theme loosely tied to the passage of time.
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Lab videos
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- Wednesday, 21 Oct ober 2009 - 20:10 UTC
Last updated: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009 - 20:10 UTC
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Comments
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Sweet – although erroneously implies that latex gloves prevent fire burns. Actually, after a recent mishap with a Bunsen, I suspect it makes it worse.
They went and outlawed real Bunsen burners in the labs I’ve worked in the last ten years – which means that everyone has secreted away some sort of camping stove for all your average glass-blowing needs.
I suspect nitrile gloves wouldn’t be any better…
Very well produced…me like!
Heather, I find it suspicious that you apparently leave a trail of bunsen-prohibiting labs =)
Ha ha! Brilliant.
A shame that the gloves are shown in close association with the bunsen, yeah, whereas they do protect against chemical burns. But not certain organomercurics, unfortunately.
I did forget to mention all the usefulness CampingGaz burners have for bacteriology, because I really find playing with glass Pasteur pipettes to make needles for dissection, micropipettes for mouth-powered ejection (not aspiration, of course), and of course, those spreaders for Petri dishes, the most attractive part of this transgression.
When my hair was long, it was always attached. And I do actually wear safety goggles, since the day a colleague received a shard of micropipette in his cornea after he made and snapped it. Rich labs (and neurobiology groups) have reproducible micropipette pullers.
But kit can’t protect you from stupidity.
But not certain organomercurics, unfortunately.
Blog post, hm?