The Biological Testament

The Truth of Bio 101: "We are all mutants - but some of us are more mutant than others."

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Before we start

You know I'm the serious sort. I like to create rules, but I don't really like to follow them. Still, rules are a convenient thing to have. Especially in the labs.

Here are the guidelines for writing in this blog:

Guideline #1 - It must be about biology (easy enough? If you're creative enough you could even turn a discussion of how a bicycle's wheels work into something bio-ish).

Guideline #2 - Or it could be about biologists. Like what Dr Lamb had for dinner last night (no offense meant; Dr Lamb is a such a nice person).

Guideline #3 - One-liners and essays are both welcomed. Pictures will be revered but please don't overpost those... soon the reverence will turn into lag.

Guideline #4 - Biologists don't really need to know how to count properly. Hence numbers don't really matter, 'cept in the matters of population ecology. 100 quokkas and 101 quokkas left in the wild does make a lot of difference (who knows - that 101st one might be asexual).

Guideline #4 - If you don't know what a quokka is, you deserve to be shot.

Guideline #5 - All new contributors to this cooperative must first pass the entrance exam, which does not include any questions on quokkas. It might or might not include how much a panini in the SAFCafe costs, however. That is a mark of a true Imperial biologist.

1 Comments:

Blogger X1 said...

The the spicules of some diatoms are arranged in a fashion rather like that on a spokes of a bicycle wheel. :-)

11:51 pm  

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