6 comments

  • kstrauser 8 minutes ago
    Super cool, and I bet housekeeping loved tidying up after turning a motel room into a street biology lab. Honestly, I think I’d prefer to stay in a room previously used to cook meth.
    • _qua 6 minutes ago
      You think pond water is the worst thing an $80 motel room has seen?
      • kstrauser 1 minute ago
        > Jugs of brackish water lined the walls. Buckets overflowed with hunks of marsh grass.

        I don’t know, that goes a little above and beyond IMO. One typically doesn’t do science in a house-type setting, for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom.

  • ouked 11 minutes ago
  • greenbit 4 minutes ago
    "Origins of life" is a bit of an overstatement, leading to a pernicious paywall.

    TLDR version: organelles called chloroplasts apparently evolved twice. Scientists investigating this reduced to working in cheap rented room.

  • danso 27 minutes ago
  • sevenart 10 minutes ago
    non-paywall (perm): https://archive.ph/QpBF1