Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

TODO confirm URL: oxfordgossip.co.uk ? An archive from 2005 when it was hottest: web.archive.org/web/20051204033916/http://www.oxfordgossip.co.uk/new/

TODO spiciest posts ever?

2023: Jonathan Barrett

Current Wikipedia seems to say that this refers specifically to cells taking up DNA from other dead cells as in the Avery-MacLeod-McCarty experiment, excluding other types of horizontal gene transfer like bacterial conjugation

The term is sometimes just used a synonym for horizontal gene transfer in general it seems however.

One is reminded of Nick Leeson.

Materials paywalled e.g. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/2022-2023/modelsofcomputation/

Largest gene, polyprotein that contains SARS-CoV-2 non-structural proteins 1 to 11.

This section discusses the pre-photon understanding of the polarization of light. For the photon one see: photon polarization.

polarization.com/history/history.html is a good page.

People were a bit confused when experiments started to show that light might be polarized. How could a wave that propages through a 3D homgenous material like luminiferous aether have polarization?? Light would presumably be understood to be analogous to a sound wave in 3D medium, which cannot have polarization. This was before Maxwell's equations, in the early 19th century, so there was no way to know.

The link will break, and the answer will lose. Or the person who summarizes inline will get more upvotes because people are lazy to click the link. Also, web archiving exists.

This is especially idiotic when it is a link to another post in Stack Overflow itself.

Niels Bohr for the Bohr model.

Nuclear magnetic resonance work: