tropical nights

Alpine plants can't thrive in hot weather. Neither can I. This July has been so sweltering. The temperatures do not go down even during nights. When a night temperature is above 25 degree Celsius, we call the night "nettai ya" (literally tropical night, meaning a sultry night like one in the tropical zone). Osaka have been tropical for 13 nights in a row. Probably, a fourteenth consecutive one will come tonight.

A pic of an alpine butterwort from the European Alps. It flowered in my garden this May.

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Have you heard of a liquid called Mili-Q water? It is specially purified water for laboratory use. It contains few contaminants. It is extremely close to theoretically pure water. I am not exactly sure how to make the water.

I had been curious what it would taste like since I knew it for the first time. I tried a test-tube of Mili-Q a few week ago. Not to contaminate the liquid, I used a new sterilized test tube as a glass. I only found it tasted bland. My instructor frowned on me using a tube for such a silly project.

My lab training has been done. I no longer have to stay late at the laboratory.