Fig. 1  On the left, a scan of a square Petri dish, filled with agar medium, on which are growing arabidopsis seedlings, about 10 days old. The plate is 10 cm x 10 cm. On the right, a micrograph of a root tip. The diameter of the root is about 0.12 mm.

Oct 30: Bouncing back to bouncing

Where correlation is exalted without any worries over causation. Also Principal Component principles are waved as we speed by.

Figure 1. Fleck-tones. Examples of granite. They look different by eye but how to measure? Image on the left is from http://geology.com/rocks/granite.shtml. On the right from http://www.armoireconversion.com/granite.html

In medias musho, Oct 16th

In which I write about flecks, possibly inspired by seeing Bela Fleck and a Flecktone (Victor Wooton).

Cross sections thru the inflorescence stem of Arabidopsis thaliana. Image taken by Chuanmei Zhu of Washington U of St. Louis and a modified form appears in 2015 Plant Physiology 167: 780–792

Oct 9th From collection to analysis

In which the process of experimentation starts to move from the bench to the computer. Does this still count as “lab” work?

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