Mi­crobes at Sea

by Elio — In 2006, an Ecuado­rian in­ves­ti­ga­tor, Eu­ge­nia Del Pino, was elected to the U. S. Na­tional Acad­emy of Sci­ences. Her ex­tra­or­di­nary con­tri­bu­tions per­tained to frog de­vel­op­ment, not ex­actly a mi­cro­bi­o­log­i­cal sub­ject. (She was even quoted as say­ing: I didn't want to work with bac­te­ria.) Nev­er­the­less, the an­nounce­ment...

by Elio — Rec­om­mendese, an off­shoot of Eng­lish, is a lan­guage used solely for the pur­pose of pro­mot­ing the chances of one's pro­tégés se­cur­ing a po­si­tion. It is used to en­hance the odds of ac­cep­tance to grad­u­ate school, ob­tain a post­doc, or get a job in acad­e­mia, in­dus­try or gov­ern­ment. One can rec­og­nize rec­om­mendese…