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.
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.
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.
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andrewducker) wrote2010-08-30 12:01 pm
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Also - regrets of the dying - well worth reading
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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.
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Is it bad that I thought "... and they discovered it didn't have the gene for running Flash"?