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The first human-designed gene was announced today. Let's hope it leads to a boneless, hamburger-flavored creature that cooks itself. My efforts at solving this problem are all buried out back.
The last gene-futzing effort (genetically identical corn) may have caused the massive bee deaths that occured this summer. So that went well.
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I had heard that frogs were a great example on how environmental factors affect animals. A couple of years ago up in Minnesota, all these deformend frogs started showing up (ie: 3 legs, two heads, 5 eyes, etc)...Lake pollutants really affected the frogs up there.
All seriousness aside, anyone see the new Phillipino jail dance video. Its only hypnotic with a good song.
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2007/10/08/my-pitchfork-review-of-the-new-philippines-prisoners-video-52/
Nora 08 Oct 2007
Bees are pretty fucking amazing (as a kid, I had a neighbor who tended his own hives) and the environmental stress they're suffering troubles me.
First I heard it was the signals from cell phones and cell towers that were jacking with them . . . then I heard they had parasitic mites they couldn't shake (been there) . . . then I heard a fungus was artificially introduced to help fight off the mites and THAT caused even more problems.
While not all plants need bees for pollination, most humans have been away from farming just long enough to take these creatures for granted. No bees, no apples . . . it's just that simple.
My texting of this post from a Blackberry is probably not helping matters.
Carl 08 Oct 2007