Another quote mine is "Things I Won't Work With" by Derek Lowe the chemist.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thing...

Examples: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/thi...

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2008/02/26/san...

I do like his writing style.

"Now that we can sleep easily on the nuclear holocaust issue, I’ll add a few more observations about this plutonium."

Be sure to highlight that feature in your AirBnB listing.

I don't entirely get it. What is "it" here? The room where you do gamma ray spectroscopy, which should have the least ambient noise (radioactivity), or the bedroom, in which case the radioactivity is probably metaphorical? Or it's intended to be a double entendre?

What was your previous one?

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It's pretty amazing to me that he can do this at home at all!