Tobias Baskin's sort-of real time science blog
March 31 is International Transgender Day of Visibility (Fig. 1). Please do something nice for your trans friends today (and everyday). As for the title of today’s post, maybe it is the other way around? Last week, I was shut out from tweaking the calibration of the liquid crystals (discussed here) because the software glitch […]
I am fretful. Forgetful too, but that is a story for elsewhere. Last week, my efforts to find out what is going wrong have shown me things look very wrong. I don’t know why; I am unsure what to do next. I have appealed to my expert colleagues, Rudolf Oldenbourg and Amit Verma of Marine […]
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, […]