Color Crisis

As most of the lab is preparing to run off to ISOT/AChems* in San Francisco next week, the GL grad students have been hurriedly preparing their presentations - Arian is giving a talk and Bhavik, Cherry and Tian are doing posters of their great research. As most around the Gilbertson lab know, we (OK, I) love the Denver Broncos and accordingly the colors orange and blue.



So, one would assume that our posters should be some artistic variation of orange & blue, correct? Well, to my shock and dismay none of the posters prepared by the three were based upon this most glorious combination of colors.


Instead, they chose some horrific combinations of colors as you can see:


Sure, they look "OK" and the data are good, but none have the well recognized pizazz of a poster based upon O&B (orange & blue). If I had to rate their choices out of a possible 10, I'd give Tian a big 0 (zero) for nothing closely resembling O&B. Begrudgingly, I'd rate Bhavik a +1.3 for a little blue (it's mostly green & yellow poster with a touch of blue tossed in). I'd give Cherry a +4 for copius amounts of orange. It might have been higher but it was combined largely with brown (orange & brown = Cleveland Browns... ugh).

Here's hoping the next batch of posters out of the lab score higher.

*ISOT/AChemS: International Symposium on Olfaction & Taste/Association for Chemoreception Sciences

yet another reason I am embarrased by my time in Louisiana...

...and on a serious note:

have a read... unbelievable and really, really disappointing but probably not that surprising given the source and the state. I guess the fight to only teach SCIENCE in science classes will go on. Last time I checked we were in the 21st century, no? Heck, let's revisit Lamarckism while we are at it and, come to think of it, I have always been skeptical of those that believe the earth is round... come on, ROUND???

Ugh.

And the answer is......... NO.

From my wonderful, but slightly out-of-focus, graduate students as seen on our lab's webcam: