Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Dec 30th, 2008
We returned to London on Saturday after a few days en famille in Provence which, it seemed to me, was colder by far than balmy old London. The in-laws also put up with a truly insupportable Internet connection that cost more and delivered a tiny fraction of what is readily available in London. Still, one [...]
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 Jul 24th, 2008
The New York Times has a nice article on evolution over the last 40 years.
I’m thinking about a new laptop. Here’s how mine have evolved over 25 years.
First, I had a PC like a sewing machine — in 1983, before the IBM PC took off: a Telcon Zorba. It weighed 10 Kg, had 64k memory [...]
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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