Washburn CHAOS Lab

12/06/2025

12/05/2025

Introducing CONAN THE BACTERIUM: the barbarian of biology.

12/05/2025

Geode for Day 4 — basically a mineral piñata.

12/04/2025

Lab work builds character… and villains. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

12/03/2025

Stranger Things…but make it scientifically feasible.

12/03/2025

Today’s “specimen” is… our marble table. Yep — the $75 online-auction steal that turned out to be actual metamorphic marble, complete with those dark zig-zag scars called stylolites.

Is it interesting?
Pretty, absolutely.
But as furniture? Alex says nope. Not interesting.

12/02/2025

Day 2 of the Rock & Gem Advent!

🖤🔥 Today’s geology drop: OBSIDIAN — volcanic glass with attitude. Science stays spicy.

12/02/2025

Day 1 of the Rock & Gem Advent from !

Kicking off December with RED GRANITE because geology slaps.
Science is metal. Science is festive. Science is CHAOS.

11/30/2025

Here's your weekly inspiration drop!
Stay feral.

11/29/2025

I saw the 25-lb apple pie at Dollywood and instantly understood Dean Wi******er on a spiritual level.

11/28/2025

Which pie is taking the crown? 🥧⚔️
Behold: the Thanksgiving Pie Bracket—where pastry meets mortal combat.

I’m dropping the matchups in this reel, and the champion gets revealed in the next.

Root for your favorite before someone starts a full-scale dessert civil war.

11/28/2025

Guess who won the wishbone?
Me.
Guess what I wished for?
For Alex to find more rocks interesting.

Not “world peace.”
Not “career success.”
I wished for my husband to level-up his rock obsession so we can continue our joint descent into feral geo-chaos.

Couples that identify minerals together, stay together.

Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at the Washburn CHAOS Lab!