The original Clark electrode was made using plastic wrap from a record album journals.lww.com/anesthesiacl...

... cells within a given logarithmic size class contribute an equal fraction to the body’s total cellular biomass.

RIP Elio, long live the nutrient growth law

Come ON strandbergbio.substack.com/p/chess-gran...

“Suffice it to say this is unbecoming of such an esteemed professor.” @strandbergbio.bsky.social gets to the bottom of the claim by Robert Sapolsky that chess grandmasters burn 6000 calories per day: buff.ly/c22lONr

I looked into the claim that chess grandmasters burn 6000 calories a day and found it was made up by popular author Robert Sapolsky open.substack.com/pub/strandbe...

"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino

I don’t! Likely it would look a lot like normal Luria-Delbruck since the relative rate of spacer acquisition is significantly lower than receptor modifications. But Manoshi Datta and Roy Kishony have a great perspective piece on this from 2018: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Luria + Delbruck showed that phage resistance comes from pre-existing mutations rather than adaptation. But we now know that there exist mechanisms for adaptive resistance, namely CRISPR. Was it a historical accident that we didn't discover CRISPR in 1943?