July 22, 2016 at 02:44AM

Today I Learned: 1) There is a bird that has evolved symbiosis with humans -- the greater honeyguide. Honeyguides will lead humans to bee hives, using and responding to special, locally-varying calls. The human hunters harvest the bee hives, and the honeyguides feast on wax and grubs left over once the people leave. Credit to Mengsha for finding this -- more information behind this paywall: http://ift.tt/29Zmni6 2) You can synchronize lightning bug flashes using LED lights: http://ift.tt/2a4U5GI 3) BsaI restriction enzyme, which I work with frequently, doesn't cut methylated DNA very well, and the hi-fidelity version (BsaI-HF) basically doesn't cut methylated DNA at all! That could explain a fair number of failures of golden gate assembly in our lab over the last couple of weeks....