Looking at recentFriday videos, we’ve been spending a good amount of time in the microscopic world. Can you blame us, given the state of the macroscopic?
Regardless, given all of this microscope gazing, one has to ask the question, why don’t we have gigantic bacteria? The answer comes down to a question of diffusion and the relationship of surface area to volume, as shown in the video below.
So the good news is that giant bacteria is one less thing we have to worry about in 2020.
David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.
