June 12, 2016 at 02:15AM

Today I Learned: 1) ColorBrewer. This is now my go-to method for picking color schemes for figures. 2) LA smells funny when it rains... a little bit like sewage.... It makes me miss Williamsburg. 3) A good optical density for running whole-cell industrial chemical reactions is 30-40, which is roughly 10-fold higher than most bacteria will grow on their own. To get densities that high, you have to pellet down a thick culture and resuspend it in less media. Thanks Anders Knight!