Friday I emptied 5 gallons of the newest beer into a keg. It’s been under pressure for two days now, and I just put it into the serving fridge. It is slightly under-hopped and a little too malty, but it should be a decent beer. Admittedly, I tasted it warm, in a frozen mug, so [...]
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Well, I’m sitting at a conference at the moment, and have decided that it has been too long since I have indulged in the joy of biological teaching. Seriously! Stop laughing. Here’s the question I randomly chose for today: The rate at which a DNA fragment moves in an electrophoretic gel is primarily a function [...]
So I’m out of town. I volunteered to be a delegate at annual conference this year, which means at the moment I’m lying in a rather musty-smelling hotel room in beautiful downtown San Bernardino, and I have to be up in a minute to go to a variety of boring meetings and vote on matters [...]
Yesterday, the Sudzers held a brew-in at Beer & Winemakers, a local homebrew shop. It is a chance to get together with club members and show off your brewery. If you have read some of my previous posts you will know that my brewery is in transition from average-homebrew-size to double-homebrew-size. I have the big [...]
I think I’m going to be moving into the plant phase of this blog. You see, a certain percentage of the GRE involves botany (they say it’s only 15-33%, but it seems like a lot more on one of the tests I am looking at). Also, in the next few week’s I’ll be running a [...]
Could I come up with a more boring title? I don’t think so! But how in the world do you write something interesting about how DNA copies itself? Maybe “base pair porn!” That would totally work! I’m putting that now…hee for me! Anyhow, on to today’s question! When DNA replicates semi conservatively, which of the [...]
Hi Reader, I am going to tell you the truth. I was not looking forward to writing the javascript necessary to get BrewSession going. For one thing I am a stickler for strict separation of behavior and content. Cascading Style Sheets are great because they keep the page content from getting lost in the necessary [...]
Hi Reader, Before I get to a serious post I want to share two things in the forefront of my mind. If you like my writing I have a personal brewing-related blog at the home of my brewery. Secondly, I discovered an enchanting bitter at Magnolia a few weeks ago. Sadly, San Francisco is an [...]
Welcome to post #2 about viruses! Remember the last one? During that post I told you about how viruses are the underdog of the living world (being that no one knows if they are actually living or not), and are composed soley of a protein coat and an inner genome. Today’s question revolves around the [...]
Ah, yeast. That beautiful, single-celled organism that gives us so much good stuff–mmm…beer. Well, at them moment, the GRE doesn’t seem to care about the goodness of alcohol. Instead, it cares more about the taxonomical groupings of the yeast responsible for some many drunken hookups–Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Here’s the question: The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is classified [...]
