Month: September 2008
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Human DNA Includes Viruses That Couldn't Take Us Down
And that’s not even including all the alien DNA: It turns out that about 8 percent of the human genome is made up of viruses that once attacked our ancestors. The viruses lost. What remains are the molecular equivalents of mounted trophies, insects preserved in genomic amber, DNA fossils. [In Our Genes, Old Fossils Take […]
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Seventh Graders Go Beyond the Stereotypical Scientist
From Fermilab – drawings of scientists by kids before they visit Fermilab and meet real researchers and afterwards: “A scientist is hardworking, studious, detail-oriented, observant, intelligent, exacting, and patient. A scientist is very important in our lives because all of the experiments he/she does in the lab can affect our health, environment, nutrition, and other […]
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What If Bristol Palin Were Black?
From Huffington Post: Which brings us back to Obama. Do you think the Republicans would lay off of Obama if his 17 year-old daughter had gotten pregnant out of wedlock? You know the answer to that question. Everyone does. “This is what the permissive liberal attitude gets you. If you allow your children to think […]