Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline.
Wednesday, 10 May 2006 
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United 93: from the absolute ordinariness of a day in September, to utter mayhem, with a minimum of pathos. posted: 10:38:26 PM |
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Today's vocabulary word is quorate, nicely defined by context here in Rami Tzabar's story about research into combating MRSA and other antibiotic-resistant bacteria:
This phenomenon has been called 'quorum sensing' with the idea very much
in the context of a board of directors where the company have to make a
decision and can only do it when the board is quorate—when there
are enough of them there to make that decision binding.
Dr [Paul] Williams said: "It is the same in the bacterial world—you need enough cells there to make a decision that is binding." (Thanks to robot wisdom.) posted: 1:12:32 PM |
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