Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Nov 28th, 2008
The BBC has a list.
Beer is important. Bread and penicillin, maybe. Then there’s recycling mycologists (not on the list). But does it really matter if Britain suffers from a great mycological brain drain? I am not convinced. If the commercial prospects were as claimed there’d be more mycologists. This ideas has been getting too much [...]
Posted in Misc on Nov 27th, 2008
The news on BBC Radio 4 this morning contained, amidst all the doom and gloom about companies going into receivership, a small story about a profession doing the same. I have to confess it cheered me up a little, although logically I know my feelings may be entirely indefensible.
It seems that Britain is down to [...]
Posted in Misc on Aug 21st, 2008
The New York Times has a fine article on the microbial forensics that “finally solved the anthrax puzzle.” The article doesn’t say that the detective work involved depended entirely on a natural phenomenon known as evolution.
Had Dr.Ivins not committed suicide prior to being arrested and charged with sending the anthrax laden messages we might have [...]
Posted in Misc on Jan 24th, 2008
No sooner had I written about the universe giving us the flagellum than Craig Venter, given to us by the universe, has announced that artificial life — or at least a first synthetic genome — is almost here. Perhaps we’ll need to add a branch back to the family tree of life! Or start [...]
Posted in Misc on Jan 23rd, 2008
The tree of life has been reorganized. That is the good news. The bad news is that you and I are now opisthokonts. Actually, we were all along. It sounds worse than it is.
You can see your pedigree in a nice tree here, but this tree now needs to be simplified a little.
It’s an [...]
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