Date: 2010-08-30 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com
I particularly liked the history of Europe in blobs - have just spent half an hour discussing it with my daughter who has just finished the history part of the Baccalaureate, and it really made us laugh.

Also - regrets of the dying - well worth reading

Date: 2010-08-30 07:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com
I like the way it emphasised Eastern Europe, with events which are presumably very meaningful in Russian history '15th C Ukraine and Belarus had a big fight' or whatever - means nothing to me. In the 2nd World War England is reduced to poking Hitler in the bum, as he fights Russia.

Date: 2010-08-30 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cheekbones3.livejournal.com
Facebook can censor what they like surely!

Date: 2010-08-30 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com
I was fascinated by "How people treat computers like people." I particuarly liked the bits about the "specialist" TVs. I bet if a TV marketer reads this article, in a couple months (in time for Xmas?) we'll see "Optimized for sports" or "optimized for games" on big screen TVs. I'm surprised we don't already.

Date: 2010-08-31 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] despotliz.livejournal.com
when does DNA decoding stop being news?

I guess this is the first fruit they've done, and the timing of the whole genome duplication is nice, but it's already down to Nature Genetics instead of Nature, and I suspect that we are very close to new genomes not being news unless they find something really interesting, as opposed to just doing them.

Personally I got bored about the time they did the giant panda.

Date: 2010-08-31 01:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] simont
Apple DNA code is cracked by geneticists

Is it bad that I thought "... and they discovered it didn't have the gene for running Flash"?

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