Super cool, and I bet housekeeping loved tidying up after turning a motel room into a street biology lab. Honestly, I think I’d prefer to stay in a room previously used to cook meth.
> Jugs of brackish water lined the walls. Buckets overflowed with hunks of marsh grass.
I don’t know, that goes a little above and beyond IMO. One typically doesn’t do science in a house-type setting, for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom.
I have an idea on how life could originate in a motel room :D
https://archive.is/2026.09.26-101638/https://www.nytimes.com...
I wonder what the author thinks steampunk means
I thought they use built up gunk from years in the bathroom to discover new species, so they choose a cheap motel.
Non-paywall: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/science/motel-science-dis...
non-paywall (perm): https://archive.ph/QpBF1
Super cool, and I bet housekeeping loved tidying up after turning a motel room into a street biology lab. Honestly, I think I’d prefer to stay in a room previously used to cook meth.
You think pond water is the worst thing an $80 motel room has seen?
> Jugs of brackish water lined the walls. Buckets overflowed with hunks of marsh grass.
I don’t know, that goes a little above and beyond IMO. One typically doesn’t do science in a house-type setting, for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom.
Probably poetic license. You can look at the pictures and see everything looks very clean.
The jugs are sealed. We can't see any "overflowing" buckets. Looking at some water samples under a microscope is not really that messy.
> for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom
For some reason this is a commonplace in the UK.
Yeah....
I had a colleague who walked the tiled floor in front of pissoirs in socks..
> for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom.
someone should inform the orange POTUS of this: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/did-donald-trump-j...