"If you think we are hard wired [by our genes]—that is, everything is deterministic—there should be a lot more genes because we have a lot more traits. This makes me as a scientist both laugh and cry. I laugh at the absurdity of it and I want to cry because it is accepted by so much of our society."
—J. Craig Venter (who led the sequencing of the human genome), 2001
The Dominant Animal
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Our precious kitty Clarissa is having some serious health problems, but we don't have enough money right now to get the blood tests she needs.…
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On fantasy characters:
If you had to distill fantasy character archetypes into just a few key terms (warrior/soldier, mystic/shaman, wizard/scholar, what have you), what…
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First Day of NaNoWriMo
Crawled out of bed an hour ago. Just finished eating breakfast and watching an episode of R.O.D -THE TV-. So much sneezing. No progress so far.
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