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Sudoku clues
http://t.co/zk3P3rPjFZ #sudoku #mathematics #arXiv #abstract The arXiv's paper is published two years ago, but I think that every time is a good time to play sudoku! The sudoku minimum number of clues...
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How to stop Ebola: ban air travel from West African countries
Countries in which Ebola virus has appeared in the past.I never thought I’d find myself agreeing with Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal. But this week, Governor Jindal called for a ban on air travel to...
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What does it take to be an expert?
Someone somewhere came up with the idea that it took 10,000 hours of “practice” to become an expert. However this is in part a quite silly idea. TPP could devote 10,000 hours practicing the violin,...
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Fun and Games with new maps of the USA
This article is just a lot of fun. What would the USA look like if all 50 states had the same population? Or perhaps some other number of states? Or whatever! TPP is annoyed because it's Lincolnland...
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Carlo Rubbia and the discoveries of the weak bosons
http://t.co/KGVNarwZMG by @ulaulaman about #CarloRubbia #NobelPrize #physics #particlephysicsOn that day 30 years ago, I was almost certainly at school. Physics still was not my passion. Of course I...
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PlantingScience - creating tomorrow's scientists today
As you may or may not have noticed, no ads, no commercial pop-ups sully the pages of this blog. Yes, you get the wisdom, knowledge, and wit of TPP for free, and it's darned well worth every penny, too....
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Continued Adventures with Rake-legged Mites
Dorsal view of Neocaeculus kinnearae; photo modified for Taylor (2014).It's been a noteworthy couple of weeks here at chez CoO. My contract at the university has reached its end, and I've become a Free...
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When is a pumpkin not a pumpkin?
TPP knows where the pumpkin capital of the USA is located. Morton, a little town right here in Lincolnland. And very few pumpkins are grown there. The reason for this is that the jack-o-lantern...
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Teachers for the peace
http://t.co/W1K0rh9An6 #nobelprize2014 #peace #children #education #teaching The Nobel Prize for Peace 2014 is awarded to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai, teachers and activists for children...
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That's a lot of stars; That's a lot of galaxies
Unless you've had a chance to get away from civilization, way away from civilization, you don't really know what the night time sky looks like because of light pollution. Years ago TPP found himself in...
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Are religious pictures more powerful than words?
Subliminal priming is a classic way to study how religion might affect attitudes and behaviour. But previous studies have had mixed results - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. In the last post,...
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Religion matters more than education when it comes to creationist beliefs
The USA is a conundrum when it comes to creationist beliefs. While the US comes about average in high-school science education results, staggering numbers of American adults are not only creationists...
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Parsnips vs. Turnips
It just happened again. TPP was buying parsnips to make some sausage, lentil, and parsnip soup. The check-out clerk had no idea what the parsnip were and so could not enter the correct reference...
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Planck results, ATLAS and the dark matter
http://t.co/jJxD8rhCr6 by @ulaulaman about #Planck, #ATLAS, #DarkMatter at #LHC The last issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics (that it's free) is devoted to the Planck 2013 results: This collection of...
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Principal Features of the Mammalian Nasal Cavity were Present in Triassic...
Ruf, I., Maier, W., Rodrigues, P. G., and C. L. Schultz. 2014. Nasal Anatomy of the Non-mammaliaform Cynodont Brasilitherium riograndensis (Eucynodontia, Therapsida) Reveals New Insight into Mammalian...
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Ahmed Zewail and the challenges of intercultural chemistry
A few days ago I was reading the fine biography of the Caltech chemist Ahmed Zewail who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his wonderful work on laser femtosecond spectroscopy which allows us to...
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What should our 'senior' co-op tech do next?
We have two co-op (undergraduate) technicians at present (paid from the last of our leftover CIHR funds). Each is with us for 8 months; one started in May and the other in September, so there's a 4...
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Phenotype of the rpoD mutant
This mutation causes H. influenzae cells to become competent prematurely, and to reach levels of competence in rich medium that are about 100 times higher than normal cells. The mutation causes a...
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Effects of cAMP and AMP on competence development by the rpoD mutant
This is a continuation of yesterday's post on the phenotype of our hypercompetent rpoD mutant strain RR753. Yesterday we wrote about its behaviour under 'normal growth conditions, and now we're going...
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Interaction of a ∆hfq mutation with the rpoD mutation
Here's the last part of the summary of what our senior co-op technician has been doing. The last set of experiments tested the interaction between a new ∆hfq mutation we've been studying, which...
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