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Al Franken Bodyslams Heckler

Al Franken Bodyslams Heckler

Will you and Michael Moore please get a grip? You are both so much more effective as court jesters! We need you! Come back! I know, the whole Bush thing is enough to make us a little nutso, I feel the same way, but guys…. I mean, really.

Virions and memes

Virions and memes

Five weeks to go until I hand in my complete PhD draft. Thought I’d celebrate by posting some of the fun virus bits I found online On Nov 13, USA Today (anyone have a better reference on this?) reported that "geonomics pioneer" Craig Venter’s research group created a synthetic bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacteria) – an artifical virus – in two weeks. "When researchers created a synthetic genome (genetic map) of the virus and implanted it into a cell,…

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Intimations of Mortality

Intimations of Mortality

Thoughts about my dad have been resurfacing now and again, and in the rare quiet moment I realize that I’m not dealing with it very well yet. My best defenses are always information and humor. According to the death clock site, I’m to die Monday, September 8, 2036, in almost 33 years. That doesn’t seem right – I’ll only be 72 or something. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see. And if the HumanForSale site can be believed,…

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