in search of embarrassing memories, taking advantage of Dailymotion to watch the old 1963 Jerry Lewis Nutty Professor, at least as much as we can stand. chemistry representation!...sort of. at any rate it's a movie I remember liking from childhood TV, because if there's any one quality I've never possessed, it's good taste in entertainment. ~Chara
oh dear, this is really quite bad. I feel like I need to watch a Jacques Tati film immediately afterward to cleanse myself ~Chara
you know, I've never seen Les Vacances de M. Hulot but, curiously, I've read the book, some time in elementary school. I remember this cover, at least ~Chara
"...but we have learned, through chemistry—a ha ha ha—man can grow further with the aid of additional elements."
welp time to get out the adamantium, I suppose ~Chara
you modern-day chemists with all your HPLCs and GC/MSes and your electron spectroscopy and everything—can you compete with a test tube rack full of food colorings??
at some point, however, there was a transition—I'm guessing around the 1990s—when the stereotypical image of a scientist's laboratory no longer meant colored liquids and O-chem glassware but, like, someone in a white coat and latex gloves tapping on a computer, or maybe pipetting something with a dial-a-pipette ~Chara
