Recent content by BillTre

Since it seems that the hybridisicity of the lemon was determined by genome studies not historical breeding records, it may have been a natural hybrid (they do occur). Both the natural hybrid and one from a human breeding scheme would have similar genomes. Maybe the citron is different.

Bad things often happen due a combination of more than one things going wrong all at once. In this way redundancy is bypassed. Those responsible for timing of leaving port, three types come to my mind: the captain, the chief engineer or electricians (people with specialist knowledge. (The...

A detailed comparison of the baby and other people can reveal relationships other than just who the mother is. The mother (whoever that is) should share 1/2 of her nuclear genome with the baby and all of the mitochondrial genome. The nuclear genome is much larger than the mitochondria genome...

Here are some pix of Egyptian big rock river transport. not ancient pictures through. I have definitely read somewhere about the stella (like a mini-Washington monument) transports. Not pyramids specifically though. The bottom one is like a catamaran. Many of their boats are reed boats. My...

The big gulp:

unless he/she has an IQ of 29.

Rumaging around LinkedIn I noticed that Veritasium has an ad for a writer/director. Not something I expected to find.

Probably something like waking up. If it had hatched (exited out of a pupae) it would have left the pupal exoskeleton behind. Also the wings usually have to get inflated by blood pressure after leaving the pupal case. It looks like its butt is stuck down and holding it up off its feet in the...

Here is a selfie (first one for me) I took when I was getting a root canal. I wanted to see what they had over my mouth. I don't think this could be very useful for a facial recognition program if were to do some crimeing. I'm wearing shades for the bright lights and there is some kind of...

This is a concern I have based on the occasionally overly polite drivers in Eugene, OR. This has happened in town here with bicycles a few times, and its stupid.