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If you live in Europe, happy Labour Day!

Also: not swine flu. I note with pleasure that the overwhelming majority of respondents to my poll sensibly chose "No" (though "tickybox" has quite the crowd of supporters!), and with even more pleasure that a few of you were game-theoretically clever enough to vote "Yes" -- since, if it had been a real betting pool with real money involved, y'all would have made out like bandits if I had been so unlucky. :P Yay not Patient Zero.

Finally, if any of you happen to have photos of me in the act of Science!, and would like to see them alongside an interview with me in h+ Magazine, would you be so kind as to send them my way? The deadline is Wednesday. Since I now have my Arduinos again, I will be endeavouring to spend some time this weekend on some prototyping for the Open Thermocycler Project, but it would be nice to have something more recognisably biological.
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I'm looking for a copy of a paper, "An agar culture medium for lactic acid streptococci and lactobacilli," by P.R. Elliker. It was originally published in the Journal of Dairy Science, vol. 39, pages 1611-1612, in 1956.

While most math and CS journals that old are electronically available these days, I guess dairy science hasn't quite caught up. Sadly, the Stanford library doesn't have the issue I'm looking for. Berkeley apparently has a copy at its storage facility up in Richmond, but that's about an hour and a half drive for me each way. So, I turn to you, Gentle Readers. Is anyone here at a university and willing to look this up and scan it for me? I can't offer anything other than a hearty thank you, the knowledge that you have helped further the interests of science, possible internet fame, and (assuming this project works) some of the fruits (er, well, yogurts) of my labour, but rest assured I'd really really appreciate it.

IOWA FOLKS: The chemistry library apparently has it, but it may be stored someplace weird. I hope that link works.

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