Thanks to the superpowers of the Mighty Seed Blog Engine, I'm able to post this while simultaneously driving to the Evolution 2006 meeting. Hopefully, I'll run into RPM and Carl Zimmer there. It's going to be very weird: I spent four years at Stony Brook and now I'm returning as a visitor. Something about never going home again comes to mind...
A programming note: I have a bunch of scheduled posts from the archives of the Mad Biologist all ready to go.
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Last week, I was invited to give a talk at Stony Brook University's Ecology and Evolution department about genomics (very long time readers will know that I spent four years at Stony Brook as a post-doc and r
Another terrific issue. I'm going to list everything but the book & database reviews & reports so as not to clutter the post too much.
When you close your eyes and picture a galaxy, what pops into your mind? For most people, it's a beautiful, spiral shape, where a bright central region fans out with arms that wind around and around, over and over, littered with brilliant, glittering stars.
Element: Francium (Fr)
Atomic Number: 87
Mass: Numerous isotopes ranging in mass from 199 amu to 232 amu, none of them stable. The only ones laser cooled are the five between 208 amu and 212 amu, plus the one at 221 amu.