Monday, September 26, 2016

September 26, 2016 at 04:06AM

Today I Learned: 1) Most genes in yeast are kept at more or less constant levels of abundance throughout the cell cycle. Presumably the same is true for many other organisms? 2) How many Americans can play the piano? Google has no easy answers for this. The best I've found is a rather sketchy, badly-cited set of estimates from a Google Answers thread estimating between 1 million and 20 million (http://ift.tt/2cvFe5D). I *have* confirmed that about 12,000 grand pianos, about the same number of uprights and digitals, and about a million electric keyboards are sold each year in the US. Now those are some hard numbers to use to estimate total numbers of piano players, but it gives you some sense of the scale of piano usage in the US. 3) Wintermelon looks like a strange cross of honeydew and cantalope. It is not. Do not be fooled. It is actually a huge, fleshy, juicy melon that tastes roughly like the pith of watermelon, and is eaten more in soups and stir frys than on its on.

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