Advancing and Retreating
One of the most important advances in 20th century science was the invention of this device in 1947 at Bell Labs.
What is the transistor?
This is the number of people in the lab right now (not including undergrads, including staff/admin).
What is 81?
This handsome actor has been in movies like "O Brother, Where Art Thou", "Ocean's Eleven", and "Gravity".
Who is George Clooney?
In a modern version of this fairy tale, a girl might need to go through the woods and then test out her ability to spot a phishing scam.
What is Little Red Riding Hood?
The manufacturer of this ubiquitous party item was founded in 1936. The company founder's son invented this item to be cheap, disposable, to withstand drops, and to be stackable.
What is a (red) Solo cup?
The Game Boy Advance was a popular portable video game console made by this company that used to sell playing cards.
What is Nintendo?
This is the number of publications listed on the Church Lab website right now (to the nearest 10).
What is 710?
This president once dodged a couple of shoes pretty well.
Who is George W. Bush?
Robin Hood and his merry band of thieves lived in this ancient royal wooded area.
What is Sherwood Forest?
The first recipe for this delicious outdoor treat appeared in a cookbook in the early 1920s. The Wikipedia page says that the key ingredient is usually "gooey but not burnt".
What are S'mores?
This famous general and emperor was forced into a catastrophic retreat after his invasion of Russia.
Who is Napoleon?
This is the original name of the NGS technique invented by Robi Mitra, Jay Shendure and others in the Church Lab.
What is FISSEQ (fluorescent in-situ sequencing)?
He's a well-known funder of progressive and liberal political causes.
Who is George Soros?
Wood is largely composed of this type of plant tissue.
What is xylem?
This iconic party song features the East Side Boyz and has three different radio edits for profanity.
What is Get Low?
Meditative retreats are an important practice in this mystical branch of Islam that focuses on purification and asceticism.
What is Sufism?
This is the specific name of the molecule rotating for eternity on our website.
What is the yeast phenylalanine t-RNA?
This athlete was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its inaugural five members and is arguably one of the most famous American athletes of all time.
Who is George "Babe" Ruth?
This is the official term for the study of woody plants.
What is dendrology?
An important part of a functioning sauna is this device that can be used to measure the level of humidity or steam.
What is a hygrometer?
This election season, one might see a lot of ADs for JD Vance, who comes from this pretty average place.
What is Middletown (Ohio)?
These are 3 of the 7 classes of projects going on in the lab right now, according to the website.
What are developmental bio, info processing, medical, genomics, ET space bio, diagnostics, chemistry, and ecosystems?
She used George as her pseudonym, and wrote novels like Middlemarch and Silas Marner.
Who is George Eliot or Mary Ann Evans?
Tiger Woods is one of the greatest golfers ever. In 2009 to 2010, he was involved in a major scandal due to multiple instances of infidelity and divorced this person.
Who is Elin (Nordegren)?
The hot tub - a favorite of Church lab partiers everywhere - was first introduced to the US in the 1940s. Hydrotherapy pumps were later added by a company whose founders were seven brothers that immigrated to the US from this country.
What is Italy?