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"He has a rare ability to explain even the most evanescent ideas in a way that gives at least the illusion of understanding, enough of a mental toehold to get on with the climb" (George Johnson, the New York Times Book Review ). (Read the first chapter, courtesy of the New York Times --free registration required.)
Mockability is an evanescent quality; it's the slip-up, the gaffe, the anomalous pratfall.
Under this condition, there is still an exponentially-decayed, evanescent wave penetrating into the D. discoideum cells.
The Diana pictorial taboo and its underlying moralism turned out to be remarkably evanescent, and a secondary morality tale has arisen to explain why: It's the Internet's fault.
The typical depth of the evanescent wave is in the range of 100-200 nm away from the coverslip, which is suitable for exciting cortical GFP-proteins in living D. discoideum cells.