How I get through some days in lab...

So I love listening to public radio while in the lab. It's a problem because it can be hard to concentrate on both science and Terry Gross' probing questions, but luckily I am pretty good at "multi-tasking." Podcasts are especially helpful while doing those tedious lab tasks such as minipreps, transformations, and well, everything (except maybe analyzing the results and planning future experiments).

The newest podcast I am addicted to is Stuff You Missed in History Class. The link is for a science-related cast from June titled "Caroline Herschel: Astronomy's Cinderella." She broke through many barriers for women in science in the late 1700s in equal measures through her relationship with her astronomer brother and her persistence. She identified and catalogued stars, comets, and nebulae.