Tobias Baskin's sort-of real time science blog
Drink up! Whether you celebrate surrounded by dozens of your relatives or you let the day glide by quietly, I hope you are warm, fed, and happy. Alert readers will know that I missed posting last Sunday. I was traveling. Technically, I reached home late that afternoon but with respect to the travail part of travel, I […]
At least one rabbit anyway. About a month ago, I wrote about falling down a hole chasing not a rabbits but root hairs. In efforts to coax fast scarlet into staining roots uniformly, I incorporated the dye into the agar medium, inside of which the roots grow. Alas, giving the roots continuous exposure failed to […]
… bit me. Of course, they always do. Examining an assumption reveals either that it is ok, to a first approximation, or that it isn’t; in the first case, the conditions are accepted as a reasonable compromise and, in the second case, conditions are changed. Without any check, unfortunate conditions come along for the ride, […]