Some gung-ho graduate students, apparently, are planning a tailgating party for the "homecoming game." Why is it that whenever I hear the word "tailgating," I always think of rednecks perched on the back of a truck chugging down cheap beer? At any rate, I'm planning on barricading myself inside during the height of this "homecoming game." Last year I was stupid and went out only to be almost mobbed by hundreds of crazed undergraduates.
Link Dump: Foetus with three parents created. Well they're only using the shell of an egg so technically the only genetic material is that of the DNA of another woman and the sperm. However, they don't say anything about the mitochondrial DNA. Was that also removed or did they only remove the nuclear DNA?
I Love Egg. Cute flash animation involving eggs in various disguises.
Face Values: How Portraits Win Friends and Influence People. "Like any celebrity, Newton was active in fashioning his public persona. Some pictures show him as an elegant, sociable gentleman, while others reflect stereotypes of obsessive scientific genius." If you looked at various portraits of Newton, you'd realize that he looks totally different in all of them. Yes, this means that Newton deliberately tampered with his own image to make people think better of him, but this also means that everyone else is extremely biased when judging people on their looks. Somehow, I doubt that has changed today--even though scientists are as diverse in appearance as the rest of the population--people still have an idea of what one would look like.
