Inside the Global Research Center
GE biologist Fiona Ginty talks about breast cancer research on YouTube.
New to us: GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna has a blog. Some of the entries lean a little toward being too much like press releases, but it's still cool to hear about what's going on at the center.
It looks like an update on a different research project is posted each week. Recent topics have included: "imagination markets," pulsed detonation engines, and breast cancer research.
The blog also has its own YouTube channel. Here's a super slo-mo video of water bouncing off a surface coating inspired by lotus leaves.
screengrab: GE Global Research Blog
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I'm in love...
... said Name Witheld... on Dec 1, 2008 at 2:42 PM | link
Look like there are some rings on her finger there, Withheld. Sorry. However, I found the framing in the Breast Cancer Awareness video quite appropriate for the subject, and some of the "related videos" YouTube pulled up were... intriguing.
... said B on Dec 1, 2008 at 3:53 PM | link
The dormant science nerd in me thinks that the bouncing water clip was very cool, and who says science isn't cool? As a cub scout some strings were pulled through one of the other kid's dads, and my den got to tour the Niskayuna facility that was known as GE R&D in those days. In retrospect, I think it was an amazing opportunity that few get because of the security there. Among other things, I got to see Irving Languir's Nobel medal, the press that made the first synthetic diamonds, an early prototype of a CAT scanner, and a firing range demonstration of bullet proof plastic. I remember getting some really cool souvenirs to take home. Since then I've long wondered about the magic being created in those labs. Now I know, so thanks for the tip!
... said Tim on Dec 1, 2008 at 7:26 PM | link
It's Irving Langmuir as i the Langmuir equation.
... said jb on Dec 1, 2008 at 10:49 PM | link
oooh, nerdgasm!
... said Pantaloons on Dec 2, 2008 at 1:21 PM | link