Living in China is a group site which is showcasing some great stuff from local bloggers. Note it also has an aggregator listing posts on their individual blogs.
This post from Vivian at Shanghai Jiatong University on her work with nanotechnology caught my eye:
It has been the eighth day that I have been interrupted by difficulties in my experiment. Things are like that.We did successfully synthesize gold nanoparticles with about 10 nanometres (nm) in diameter eight days ago in our lab. But nothing appeared when we planned to synthesize more gold nanoparticles under the same experimental conditions. Where is the gold? No one can tell me what happened. I even dreamed of being as tiny as those nanoparticles.
In the following days I worked as a detective to dig out where our gold was and which is the key factor that affected the results. I tried to change each experiment parameter but failed each time.
Read the whole thing to discover the source of the problem.
Another story I meant to link to in the past there is Interview With a 1989 Demonstrator In China.
If you haven't been there before, you may just look around and decide it's a must read. They're really setting the bar high.
Update: Since you're already in the neighborhood, don't miss the exciting news about The Amazing Mars Discovery!
Well, she has me wondering with her comment about the gold nanoparticles being mad at her. I can't tell if she's making a joke or not - LOL. Otherwise, interesting site - thanks for the link. I'll be checking them out periodically as time allows.
Posted by: Teresa | January 07, 2004 at 10:09 PM
Hi Teresa,
It wouldn't be unusual for someone Chinese to give human attributes to an inanimate object. In this case though I think it was meant to be humor.
DC
Posted by: DC | January 09, 2004 at 11:40 AM
it wouldn't be unusual for anyone in the world to give human attributes to an inanimate object. people do that, and they have for ages.
and she was trying to be funny.
Posted by: boy | January 09, 2004 at 06:22 PM
Sorry I was being a bit "tongue in cheek" with that comment. It's more difficult to do that in writing than if you say it aloud. *g*
Posted by: Teresa | January 09, 2004 at 08:20 PM