Stratigraphy, black bean soup, and hawks.
Drawing on my hundreds of hours of undergrad student labor analyzing soil samples using the Bouyoucos method (here’s a study in good science and bad graphics on that topic,) I put our experimental color-coded plastic media into a 2.25 inch cylinder and inverted...
Little plastic particles, big rivers.
The plastic media we use for the Emriver model comes from post-industrial recyclers. It’s used as an abrasive to do things like take paint off airplanes. Getting it in certain colors, or color-coded by size, was a joke to them. Like asking for only the Budweiser...
Hot grad students in ergonomic Em4 hot tubs. Not.
The building was filled with smoke as I arrived this morning. Jesse was fixing our Goodwill 1970’s office chairs with his wire welder. Without gloves, I see. We worked on em4 ergonomics, here with a 1:5 model. Probably a reservoir low and big enough to...