Germanofthebored
Germanofthebored t1_j6nkh6g wrote
Reply to AskScience AMA Series: I'm BirgĂĽl Akolpoglu, a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. I work on microalgae and bacteria-based microrobots that could one day be used to deliver drugs and battle cancer! AMA! by AskScienceModerator
How do you use magnets on E.coli? Did you use the sensory systems of magnetotactic bacteria?
Germanofthebored t1_j6etwky wrote
That picture looks seriously wide-angle to me. Which would put the photographer awfully close to the edge of that water hole. No wonder the image is a bit blurry - there must have been a load of camera shake (and photographer shake)
Germanofthebored t1_j0ptgx4 wrote
Reply to The Moon, Saturn and Jupiter through my 4" telescope and smartphone by InternationalBack472
I can hear Richard Strauss play in my head just looking at this picture. Although, reading that it is a composite was a bit of a led-down
Germanofthebored t1_izilhcx wrote
Reply to comment by kevineleveneleven in Conflict in Central Europe leading to Bronze Age Collapse by Gideonn1021
I don’t really know much about (pre)history, but I was always wondering if iron technology made the extensive trade systems that were needed to gather the ingredients for bronze unnecessary, and that breakdown of “international” trade caused the collapse of civilization
Germanofthebored t1_iy1cfcb wrote
Reply to comment by New_Concert_4315 in How exactly does CRISPR-CAS9 insert new genes? by AutomaticAd1918
Good question - one reason is that the chain isn't flexible enough to make such a tight turn. Still, a free nucleotide building block could hydrogen bond to a growing chain. But that would only be 2 or 3 H bonds, and thus much too weak to stabilize the complex
Germanofthebored t1_ixwx3nt wrote
Reply to comment by Catos_Ghost in Pompeii by Robert Harris will appeal to people interested in water resources, engineering and city infrastructure by boxer_dogs_dance
I read the first book of the trilogy (so far), and what gets me is that I have no idea where facts and and where literary license starts. Any ideas how accurate the book is? Harris has a couple of other alternate history novels, so I do not completely trust him...
Germanofthebored t1_iwhner5 wrote
Reply to comment by ReactorMechanic in [Image] Calvin and Hobbes tells it like it is by maayangor
Bill Waterson figured he had said all he had to say, and he has packed away his beautiful water colors and inks. He just stopped, and it seems that he couldn't care less about merchandizing and all that.
Mr Waterson, if you are out there, thanks for all the happy times you gave me, and for the joy my daughter now gets out of your work
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Reply to comment by jubears09 in Is there a genetic disease where the heterozygote has more severe disease symptoms than the homozygote? by Altranite-
Oh no, I thought (and taught) that one of the two X chromosomes gets packed away in the Barr body. Do both X chromosomes add to the exogne of the cell, or is the problem an interaction between cells?