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Jeffrey M
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Saving the biosphere - One allele at a time ™ | Jeffrey Markert | Non Satis Scire
Potential flurries. Yikes!
a close up of a puppet wearing a blue scarf and gloves holding a stick .
ALT: a close up of a puppet wearing a blue scarf and gloves holding a stick .
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This was something I realized fairly recently and a sign that I continue to mature. When I'm reading/watching/listening for pleasure, I'm not obligated to finish any creative work that I'm not enjoying. Whether it's a novel or a youtube video.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Oh very cool. I like the context The Guardian provided.
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I wonder why Ds keep losing to the worst people on the planet...🤔
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Reposted by Jeffrey M
The Guardian asked the question, purely speculative, but I think it's quite reasonable to think that, had she and J.D. Bernal lived to carry on the work, they might all three have shared in it.
Would Rosalind Franklin have won a Nobel for her work on viruses? | Natalie Starkey
Natalie Starkey: Rosalind Franklin, celebrated in a Google doodle for her part in the DNA helix discovery, went on to do other pioneering work
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I think about how she was already a well known and respected scientist in the late 50s. If she had lived longer, she might have become a household name, regardless of her relationship with W&C. Her work on the structure of TMV was (is?) a fixture in college textbooks when I was a student.
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You're welcome - I'm glad you appreciate it as much as I do.
November 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
November 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I just learned that it's a good idea to have a password on your phone.
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reposted by Jeffrey M
The DA wasn't able to provolone assailant was capable of such harm so the jury said it was probably a bunch of baloney.
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I guess Roger Williams isn't nationally recognized. General Ambrose Burnside is though.
November 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Michelle Kwan abandoned us, didn't she. We still get to claim part of Taylor though.
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Amazing that they knock Buddy right off the embarrassing RIer top five.
November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM