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Time lapse experiment #2 – rising sourdough

Posted on 18 July 2010 by grischa

Again using gawker (http://gawker.sf.net) I spied on my sourdough, which was rising in a water bath before being made into a bread. Click “continue” to see the finished product.

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Cost of living – re-examined

Posted on 13 October 2008 by grischa

When the whole world is frightened by a supposed economic crisis, it is good to keep some calm through a reality check. A recent article on the value of biodiversity (in German) provided just that. The article talks about an ongoing … Continue reading →

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Why Excel is used by scientists…

Posted on 3 October 2008 by grischa

Yesterday I finally found out why some fellow scientists use Excel to analyse their data. There are many much better tools for the job, such as the free, open-source and multi-platform statistics package R or well known packages like Matlab or … Continue reading →

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EPR Analysis Software

Posted on 29 September 2008 by grischa

My first science post! I wrote some software some time ago to analyse EPR power saturation spectra. The usefulness of my software has been publicly acknowledged recently, so I felt that I should also release it publicly.

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