Re­cent Blog Items We've En­joyed

by Elio

41 lb (20 kg) Huge Mush­room. Source

At softpedia.com, you'll find a photo of a 20 Kg mush­room from the Mex­i­can state of Chi­a­pas. It ac­tu­ally looks like a mush­room, only big­ger.

Evo­lu­tion­ary Bi­ol­o­gist has a lively dis­cus­sion re­gard­ing ex­per­i­ments, new and old, that ask if bac­te­ria get old as they mul­ti­ply (with a com­ment by Elio). The ques­tion it­self is tan­ta­liz­ing be­cause cells that di­vide by bi­nary fis­sion are gen­er­ally thought to be "im­mor­tal."

At Sand­walk, you'll find a witty and in­sight­ful video by Robert Ince on the Top Five Dead Sci­en­tists.

A sec­ond in­stall­ment of news about the evo­lu­tion­ary mean­ing of cir­ca­dian rhythms in cyanobac­te­ria is at A Blog Around the Clock. (For the first in­stall­ment, posted on our blog, click here.)

One of our fa­vorite fun­gal blogs, Kathie Hodge's Cor­nell Mush­room Blog, car­ries in­ter­est­ing time-lapse movies. A re­cent one is on "Su­per­mar­ket My­col­ogy. Fly­speck dis­ease of ap­ples."

In Cat­a­logue of Or­gan­isms, Christo­pher Tay­lor has an in­for­ma­tive piece on my­colic acids of the Corynobac­teri­naea, which in­clude the diph­the­ria bacil­lus, tu­ber­cle bacilli,
No­car­dia, and oth­ers.

Not a blog, but the New York Times has a site for mi­cro­bi­o­log­i­cal news. And of course, Mi­crobe­World News is a steady source of this kind of news (dis­con­tin­ued).