Archive for December, 2008
Crichton’s “crazy” concepts
A visionary but also controversial genius recently has left us. Michael Crichton, the famous writer, filmmaker and, less familiar to most people, skilled anthropologist and medical doctor, died of cancer at the age of 66.
Crichton by no means was a blatherer. Far from it! He was a Harvard graduate, a lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge University, […]
Spitting and popping genes
Did you ever toy with the idea of having your own DNA analysed? You didn’t? Well, 25-year-old reporter girl Boonsri Dickinson from the NYC-based Discover magazine did.
Dickinson spat and popped, then she sent, ugh!, saliva and cheek cells by mail and subsequently was disclosed frightening things.
DNA testing isn’t no more bloody expensive. There are a […]
