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  1. Sector General by James White or on What's the Best Book You Read This Year? · · Score: 0

    Foundation by Asimov. Contact by Sagan. Childhood's End by Clarke... But this year's discovery - Cixin Liu and his Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy.

  2. Not convinced yet... on Video Shows How Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs (npr.org) · · Score: 0

    This video also may show how bacteria grow on a medium after antibiotic degraded to concentration which is no longer effective. Antibiotics are known to be not very stable substances. Two weeks at 37 deg C incubator (E. coli optimal growth temperature) may have degraded the antibiotic. Did the researchers check antibiotic concentration after two weeks? You will never know as the the article is paywalled, even though your taxes probably paid for this research. After nearly 700 generations (E. coli has a cell division rate of about once every 30 minutes) is not surprising that "multiple coexisting lineages diversified both phenotypically and genotypically". Heh, I am not convinced, at least not yet.