My take: the useless objects themselves are not art; the observation of them, however, is.

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Faculty are the primary stewards and enactors of the mission of research and teaching; knowledge creation and dissemination. The administration exists only in its capacity to forward that mission.

I used to ride my bike to Radio Shack (with a cassette in my backpack) so that I could print out my homework on that big dot-matrix printer to the left. 🙂

I feel your pain.

It’s so ludicrous.

This may be a dumb question, but is there anything about a gene gun that is inherently that expensive? I know it’s pressurized gas, so I’m assuming the cost is in the particle prep?

I’m just imagining a low-cost gene gun added to your repertoire of cool instruments.

I think I may have been to that park!

Call me Broop.

Exactly. That was my very first thought once I discovered what it was “measuring“ 🙄

Same.

I’m not even five minutes into it and I’ve already ordered the book. ❤️