Turned from teaching pure applied botany [for schoolchildren] (history, DIYs, current uses of plants, including space research (although one day I'm so going to build myself a desktop clinostat)) to quantitative botany. So far, two lectures (for a single brave 14-year-old). The first time, we talked about what is measurement and why there are so many ways to screw up when you have to measure something sufficiently abstract. The second time, about what people get to measure in different branches of botany, and prepared for our first lab (safety, background, etc.) It will be a comparison of two-three ways of staining fungi in roots (which would require us to 1) develop the protocols and 2) dye samples of a couple root systems to see if there is any difference), although just a phenomenological one - we'll get back to sample size later on, after we get into 'real statistics'.
In short: got myself a test subject! Yay!
Your job, should you choose to accept it, is to comment on this thread explaining the most awesome thing you've done this month. You may be as blatantly proud of yourself as you feel. You may unabashedly consider yourself the coolest freaking person ever because of that awesome thing you're dying to tell everyone about. This is the place to do just that.
Remember, however, that this isn't any kind of progress thread. Nor is it any kind of proposal thread. This thread is solely for people to talk about the awesome things they have done. Not "will do". Not "are working on". Have already done. This is to cultivate an environment of object level productivity rather than meta-productivity methods.
So, what's the coolest thing you've done this month?
(Previous bragging thread)