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Mark

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Date registered: April 11, 2012

Biography

Mark Lorch has PhD in biochemist and is a lecture at the University of Hull, UK. As well as research, teaching and blogging he can sometimes be found 'science busking' on the streets of Yorkshire. Sometimes his favourite tricks end up in his blogs. Oh, and he tweets @sci_ents.

Latest posts

  1. New manufacturer of NMR instruments to enter the market — January 19, 2015
  2. How LCDs work — November 10, 2014
  3. How the infamous Yellow Rain investigation has foresaw a drug delivery innovation — November 3, 2014
  4. Peer Reviewed Play List — October 1, 2014
  5. The Minecraft Chemistry Challenge — September 26, 2014

Most commented posts

  1. ‘Anonymous’ peer-review – a cautionary tale — 23 comments
  2. The Underground Map of the Elements — 16 comments
  3. Helium for balloons but none for my NMR — 15 comments
  4. Space dinosaurs, the saga continues — 14 comments
  5. Bloggers are time wasters — 13 comments

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Jan 19

New manufacturer of NMR instruments to enter the market

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With the exit of Agilent from the NMR instrument market there’s a gap that is in desperate need of filling. Now it looks like a rather unusual group is considering plugging the hole. The company, usual associated with construction but also happens to be the largest manufacture of tyres in the world, is conducting a …

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Nov 10

How LCDs work

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A little video I put together to explain how liquid crystal displays work, using pasta, stair gates, wool, a hair dryer and some polarizing filters.

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Nov 03

How the infamous Yellow Rain investigation has foresaw a drug delivery innovation

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By Mark Lorch, University of Hull The history of science is full of episodes when a seemingly ludicrous theory is ridiculed, but then slowly gathers evidence and support to move from the fringes to the heart of the scientific consensus. Examples include Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection, the theory of plate tectonics that …

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Oct 01

Peer Reviewed Play List

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It’s probably no news to most of use that puns, quotes and lyrics crop  up on a fairly regular bases in titles of research papers. But scientists making humorous and cultural references in their published work does appear to be news in some quarters. A group of Swedish scientist have caught the medias with their 17 …

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Sep 26

The Minecraft Chemistry Challenge

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Minecraft is an truly awesome game. Think of it as digital lego set in a infinitely explorable world. But its real draw is that is encourages creativity on so many level. Players can build what they like, but also the code is open source, allowing creative coders to fiddle with rules and resources in the game. The …

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Sep 16

Hack your inkjet printer and turn it into a lab robot

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If you stop and think about it for a moment, you will realise what an astonishing feat of precision engineering your colour printer is. It can take the primary colours – cyan, yellow, magenta and black – and mix them together carefully enough to achieve more than a million different hues and shades. Not only …

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