Word: beaker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first nothing happened. My mood stayed bright. I slept. I concluded that I had a soul after all and that my moods weren't merely molecular. Then the inevitable slippage started. With plottable predictability, as if my brain were a slowly draining beaker, my sense of well-being sank and sank until I felt lower and darker than ever before. I went back to a doctor--a specialist this time--and asked flat out for Prozac, by then the subject of books and articles. One week later I felt fully restored and resigned myself to a humbling new self-image...
First, there are a few crayoned or markered pictures of her holding beakers. Then she pulls out a sheet of paper with a pencil drawing of a beaker with huge stars surrounding...
...tiny current that can be used to move atoms and molecules around with pinpoint precision. Thus last year physicists from IBM's Almaden Research Center manipulated 35 xenon atoms on a nickel surface to spell out their company's logo. They have also fashioned seven atoms into a minuscule beaker in which they can observe chemical reactions at an atomic level, and they devised a working version of a single-atom electronic switch that, in theory, could replace the transistor. Though some of the achievements seem whimsical -- constructing a miniature map of the western hemisphere out of gold atoms...
...Beaker: Check out the Chem concentrators in the basement of Cabot Library and you'll understand the importance of Beaker's message to Harvard: Science can be fun, but it can drive you crazy...