Small Potatoes

 
(Snafu Haiku)

why pretend to be

a small potato StarBear?

solve agar problem!

h/t  Lab staple agar hit by seaweed shortage, Nature Journal 

Bioluminescent BakTun

  
H/T to the shiny Hinea brasiliana

Belly Button Bacteria

 

h/t: In the hunt for new antibiotics, the genius of simplicity, by Carl Zimmer on STAT;

 

Of BioBricks, Boots and BellyButton Cheeses

StarBear’s Saturday Chores List

Ideas for Bio-Culture

A designer line of hiphop boots (Courbe de la Boothin) to match the Klein Toque

A line of gLoves (I-kid-you-not AhZule!)

A plAtterer of designer cheesus (La BellyButton qui Rit)

(Hat Tip to those Fungi Caps, and to the Science Weekly Podcast)

 

StarBear’s BellyButton Found!

All Belly Buttons come from Africa…Check out Cmdr Chris Hadfield’s tweet to see this African meteor impact crater.

Unleash the Krater!

…on a tangent: there is an expression in Afrikaans: Om ‘n krater van jouself te maak, which translates to making a bellybutton? of yourself…the Greek definition sounds like more fun.

Hat Tip to the micro biome in each and every belly button, and to the inspirational teeny flightless feathered dinosaur,

Eosinopteryx

 

Related articles

• Discovering my microbiome: “You my friend, are a wonderland”, by Carl Zimmer, 2011 (Discover Magazine)