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  • Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #212

    Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #212

    August 29, 2024January 26, 2026

    In the same spirit as Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #4, posted on De­cem­ber 19, 2006, here's an­other sim­i­larly "crazy" one...

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  • Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #210

    Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #210

    February 29, 2024January 27, 2026

    The en­dosym­bio­sis of a cyanobac­terium led to the for­ma­tion of the pho­to­syn­thetic or­ganelle, the chloro­plast. Along evo­lu­tion­ary his­tory this or­ganelle proved quite plas­tic; there are many non-pho­to­syn­thetic vari­ants with very dif­fer­ent func­tions...

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  • Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #209

    Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #209

    November 30, 2023January 28, 2026

    Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #209 — What gen­eral rules do you see emerg­ing from the on­go­ing stud­ies of mi­cro­bial com­mu­ni­ties that will in­form our un­der­stand­ing of their func­tion?

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  • Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #208

    Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #208

    October 26, 2023January 28, 2026

    by Memo Berk­men — Can you imag­ine a place where con­di­tions have re­mained rel­a­tively con­stant through­out much of Earth's his­tory...

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  • Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #207

    Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #207

    September 28, 2023January 28, 2026

    Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #207 How come the small­est cells of a given bac­te­r­ial species are also the ones with the slow­est growth rate?

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  • Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #206

    Tal­mu­dic Ques­tion #206

    August 24, 2023January 28, 2026

    by Roberto — Two re­cent events prompt me to post this (dou­ble) Tal­mu­dic Question(s). First, I had a lot of thoughts in­spired by Christoph's Mon­day post on stop codons be­ing rec­og­nized by charged tR­NAs in a try­panoso­matid: "Stops mak­ing sense." How bizarre can non-canon­i­cal codes get? Sec­ond, I was read­ing posts from the past.

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