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where curiosity puts on goggles and occasionally invents penicillin by leaving a window open
means A room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching.
from A clipping of "laboratory," which comes from the Medieval Latin "laboratorium," a place for working — built on Latin "laborare," to labor or toil. So at heart a lab is simply a workshop, though the work happens to be done with beakers instead of hammers.
- happy accident
- Penicillin came from a contaminated, forgotten petri dish
- safety code
- No food rule means no accidentally eating cyanide
- dog confusion
- Labrador retrievers also answer to the name
- glassware obsession
- Beakers are loved more than they measure accurately
- eternal hum
- Fume hoods run 24/7, devouring building energy
for instance
bell labs — transistor, laser, and unix invented here by at&t researchers, 1925-2008
los alamos national laboratory — manhattan project site in new mexico where the first atomic bomb was built, 1942-1945
cavendish laboratory — cambridge physics lab where the electron was discovered by j.j. thomson in 1897