Continuing with some more Olympics-related matters, a recent essay in Nature Reviews Microbiology caught my eye. It’s called the Microbial Olympics and, just like the title suggests, in it the authors describe the events taking place at the inaugural ‘Microbial Olympics’. It’s a pleasant, well-written piece and if you can get your hands on it, […]
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The 2012 Olympics are coming closer, and, as such, have been a popular blog topic lately. And I’ll join in since I came across an article that looks at the progression of running speeds in three animals: dogs, horses and humans. For all three there are good datasets on the ten best performers for the […]
