Word: luria
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...experiment was carried out using two types of chemical tests—Luria broth plus ampicillin (an antibiotic), and YEPD (yeast extract with peptone and dextrose)—and four petri dishes: one sample for each foot (for comparative purposes) and two control dishes. After one week’s incubation, the two sample dishes blossomed with colorful fungi—savory reds and yellows of yeasts, lovely whitish blobs of a penicillin species, green spots of trichoderma and delightful traces of aspergillus—but nothing out-of-the-ordinary for an outdoor statue. “These...
...when Livesey announces, in a note at the book's end, that she has drawn inspiration from great memory scholars such as Frances Yates, Jonathan Spence, A. R. Luria and Harvard's psychology department chair, Daniel L. Schacter, one wonders how she could have sapped those wonderful writers of their vitality. In comparison to Livesey, Luria's account of the Russian mnemonist Sherevskii is refreshingly direct and insightful, and there is more to learn about memory from a chapter of Spence's Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci than from the whole of this failed comedy. What this ultimately shows...