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Re­cent Blog Items We've En­joyed – Fall Har­vest

by Elio

Phage-hunter Tim Samp­son of Blog­ging for Bacterio­phages has a mind-bog­gling cal­cu­la­tion about how far the phages of this planet would stretch if laid end to end. Plus a phage bal­lad. (blog in­ac­tive since 2010)

Seen through the eyes of J. A. Gins­burg armed with 10x lens, lichens get their time of day at Germtales (blog in­active as of 2014).

Cer­a­tiomyxa. Source

Slime molds also get their at­ten­tion in an eru­dite es­say in Christo­pher Taylor's Cat­a­logue of Or­gan­isms. (blog in­ac­tive since 2008)

Kathie Hodge re­ports in the Cor­nell Mush­room Blog that she and oth­ers were on NPR Sci­ence Fri­day on Sep­tem­ber 12, 2008, in a pro­gram en­ti­tled Fungi: The Good, The Bad, And The Ed­i­ble.

A. J. Cann's Mi­cro­bi­ol­o­gy­Bytes is al­ways there to pro­vide in­ci­sive analy­ses of late-break­ing mi­cro­bi­o­log­i­cal news. (blog deleted)

And mi­cro­bi­o­log­i­cal news with a per­sonal touch abounds in Tara Smith's Ae­ti­ol­ogy. (in­ac­tive since 2017)

 

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MuhabbetTr.Net
15 years ago

Thank you for the post. It's very in­ter­est­ing

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sohbet
15 years ago

thanks for shar­ing

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sohbet
14 years ago

thank you shar­ing posted

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