March 08, 2016 at 04:01AM

Today I Learned: 1) Addgene (and probably other companies) sells libraries of DNA parts in golden braid formats. The only catch is that they're almost certainly not compatible with libraries developed by other labs (including ours) so now there are at least several and possibly many non-compatible libraries siloed by their cut sites. So close, yet so far.... 2) ...a bit about the state of neuroscience from Dawna Bagherian I don't think I can summarize it better than her, so I quote: "I'm going [to a particular neuroscience talk] but I feel like I've heard this talk a thousand times. Every month someone has the revelation that cortical units don't necessarily encode one dimensional information and it's so surprising." Thanks Dawna Bagherian! 3) A tasty recipe: peanut butter, whey powder, honey, and oatmeal, in some reasonable amounts. Mix. Roll into balls. Eat or store for a while. Now to find a vegan substitute for whey powder.... Thanks to Suzannah Fraker for teaching me this!