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It’s so funny and so well done–must watch. Hat tip Chris Robinson via Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/102370347732140106252/posts/iXYYLwZDgw8

Via Rebecca Skloot: https://twitter.com/RebeccaSkloot/status/287691279813464065 with a hat tip to +Leonid Kruglyak. Dog DNA – watch more funny videos

I had no intention of posting for a few days because of the holiday, but this was just too funny to pass up. I had to watch it a couple of times to catch everything; even the crawls at the bottom are hysterical. Hat tip to Casey Bergman for retweeting this–I might have missed it [...]

This is definitely the first time I’ve seen this in a genome project. Via Martin Robbins:  The Story of You: Encode and the human genome More details about this now on Tim’s blog:  Genomes And Tim Combined! Edit: while the dichotomous responses continue to flow in… On the left: Blinded by Big Science: The lesson [...]

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One of the points that I have always made about the advent of personal genomics was that we are going to find out some family secrets that have been under wraps for a very long time. This may not always be a bad thing. But there are going to be some cases where the participants [...]

Yeah, I know, we all dread the day. But sometimes there are some clever winning tidbits out there. Here are some of my favorites, in case you missed them over the weekend. N.Y. Preschool Starts DNA Testing For Admission (Strangely this hit a nerve and 2 people yelled at me for this one–all I did [...]

We’ve had a lot of chuckles over PhD Comics over the years. One of my personal favorites is Marriage vs. the PhD, with a table comparing the two. One of the others that we think is a perfect crystallization is  The Science News Cycle.  But those are just a couple of the years of comics [...]

My housemate is in an entirely different field, but we were both cracking up at the similarities in project features we saw in these cartoons. There are a couple of versions, and I would actually create a sort of a hybrid of them for projects I’ve been involved with. But in either case they are [...]

As Mary pointed out last week, we had an alien DNA upgrade about 1,000 years which lead to the blast furnace, among other necessary modern accoutrements, according to recent research reported in the Weekly World News (still no original paper found in PubMed). Well, apparently current genomics research has shown  that those meddlesome  aliens are still [...]