Interactive Workbench on SEED Magazine December 4, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in science, Web 2.0.trackback
SEED Magazine just published a very interesting interactive image that lets you look behind the scenes of the workbench of a famous and successful scientist.
Martin Chalfie is perhaps best known for his Nobel Prize-winning work on GFP, a jellyfish molecule that glows bright green when exposed to blue light.
Click on the image below to read the descriptions and to find out what a talking stick is.
Here are also other workbenches of different scientists.
Hi Bertalan, I don’t agree that the image ”lets you look behind the scenes of the workbench of a famous and successful scientist”. It’s way too arranged.
As Chalfie himself admits: “I haven’t done a lot of experiments recently. I spend most of my time in my office next door, working on papers or talking with post-docs about their studies”
That’s the fate of most senior scientists — and Seed Magazine doesn’t seem to have realised that this fact corrupts the authenticity of the image. The difference between a used and not-so-much used lab bench is subtle — but it is there. They should have presented it as ‘the dead workbench of Martin Chalfie’ instead.
Read more here: http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/12/05/way-too-neat-lab-bench/