Are you ready to embark on a wild journey through the world of coyotes in California? Brace yourself as we uncover intriguing facts about these adaptable creatures and their remarkable ability to thrive in the Golden State. From urban landscapes to sprawling rural areas, coyotes have managed to carve out a niche for themselves amidst human-altered environments. But what exactly makes them so successful in their conquest?

I wrote in an earlier post how Pauling’s Nobel prize-winning suggestion in February 1951 of a (left-handed) α-helical structure for proteins[cite]10.1073/pnas.37.4.205[/cite] was based on the wrong absolute configuration of the amino acids (hence his helix should really have been the right-handed enantiomer). This was most famously established a few months later by Bijvoet’s[cite]10.1038/168271a0[/cite] definitive crystallographic