Things you need to know about the Calvin Cycle...

[Tero]

..if it ever comes up in small talk at some science cocktail hour. Sometime in the post Trump era.


The thing is, a lot of stuff just goes around in 3-5 carbon bits. Only one glucose spits off at the bottom. It's a terrific cycle. It makes life possible. It makes it possible to capture stuff out of photons.

[JimC]

I once knew that off by heart...

Then I passed that exam, and it faded like a dream...

[pErvinalia]

..if it ever comes up in small talk at some science cocktail hour. Sometime in the post Trump era.


The thing is, a lot of stuff just goes around in 3-5 carbon bits. Only one glucose spits off at the bottom. It's a terrific cycle. It makes life possible. It makes it possible to capture stuff out of photons.

I'd forgotten I even knew this stuff. In fact, my science days are receding at what seems like a steadily increasing rate...

[pErvinalia]

I once knew that off by heart...

Then I passed that exam, and it faded like a dream...

Oops, beaten to it by Jim..

[Svartalf]

I never learned about that and will have to wiki to even know what it's about

[rainbow]

I once had a case of the Krebs.

[pErvinalia]

[Woodbutcher]

..if it ever comes up in small talk at some science cocktail hour. Sometime in the post Trump era.


The thing is, a lot of stuff just goes around in 3-5 carbon bits. Only one glucose spits off at the bottom. It's a terrific cycle. It makes life possible. It makes it possible to capture stuff out of photons.

Where are the pedals? And where is Hobbs' cycle?

[laklak]

Here's the Jesus Cycle

[Tero]

No Hobbes . Just Calvin. Melvin Calvin. I once shook his hand. He is dead now. His Berkeley office had a toilet. And a little planetarium device.

I've met 2 Nobelists. The other is Gertrude Elion. She only had an MS because the Ivy Leage before 1960 never gave PhDs to women scientists