If you enjoy thinking about big numbers, track down a copy of this article, and have yourself a merry time: “Beyond the infinite – tracking bacterial gene expression,” Jack A. Gilbert [pictured here], Microbiology Today. vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 82-86. May 2010. “IF THE NUMBER of known stars in the Milky Way is multiplied by the […]
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The vagueness of size: Little big star
The notion of size can be surprisingly vague. Here’s an example. Is this a big error, or a small error: NEWS.com.au would like to apologise for their error — as we all know, Betelgeuse is the second biggest star in the Orion constellation, not the universe. The quotation is from a news article that says: […]
Ig Nobel winner’s big new pepper
Ig Nobel Prize winner Paul Bosland has bred yet another surprising jalapeno pepper. Professor Bosland, director of The Chile Pepper Institute, New Mexico State University, was awarded the 1999 Ig Nobel Biology Prize for breeding a spiceless jalapeno chile pepper. The newly announced pepper (which is not spiceless) is meant to have an impressively large […]