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How bacteria keep proteins moving

Bacteria contain large numbers of negatively-charged proteins to avoid the electrostatic interactions with ribosomes that would dramatically reduce protein diffusion.

You Must Keep Money Moving

Video analysis is an effective tool in understanding physics and from the students’ point of view a popular activity. It sometimes occurs that movies recorded by students are not well fit for analysis: the motion may be too quick for recording with a normal camera or webcam, perspective distortion may cause problems, or manual collection of video data may be too timeconsuming. In the first case...

Keep It Simple

league will ask, ‘So what?’ Again, you don’t have to ask that yourself, but if you did and couldn’t answer it, you’re in trouble. 6. Remember that your talk or writing really works on two levels, one where you make your point and a second where your ‘metacommentary’ explains to your students or colleagues how and how not to take it, using phrases of the ‘What I’m saying’ or ‘What I’m not saying...

Keep it in Mind

Quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli expressed disdain for sloppy, nonsensical theories by denigrating them as “not even wrong,” meaning they were just empty conjectures that could be quickly dismissed. Unfortunately, many remarkably popular theories of consciousness are of this ilk—the idea, for instance, that our experiences can somehow be explained by the quantum theory that Pauli himself helped...