<p dir="ltr">A single-panel labelled-diagram style cartoon showing an improvised “lab” built outdoors with coffee cups, bushes for storage, tin-can apparatus burning sticks for fuel, fast-food reagents, and eager student helpers. A child asks a parent why the “strange person” is there—“ex-academic”—satirising underfunded research.</p>
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Creation date
2017-09-13AltText
Outdoor makeshift lab using cups, sticks and cans with a parent calling the researcher an “ex-academic.”Transcript
Person 1 (child): Mummy what’s that strange person doing?
Person 2 (parent): That’s an ex-academic don’t look Tabitha
Plentiful disposable reaction vessels (coffee cups)
Easy access storage (bush)
Green upcycled lab equipment (tin cans and coat hangers)
Free fuel (sticks)
Low cost diverse chemical reagents (fast food)
Eager lab assistants (pre-grad students)
