I'm actually working on my research right now. But I just had to share this. Below is a visual representation of a section of the Drosophila melanogaster (fruit-fly) genome. Above the coordinate axis is the strand of DNA transcribed left-to-right. Below the coordinate axis is the strand of DNA transcribed right-to-left. The boxes represent ( Read more... )

Two posts in 2 days. Craaaazy ( Read more... )

How, oh how, have I passed almost 27 years (yes, I know I'm a baby) and not truly learned to appreciate Leonard Cohen until Saturday night, I shall never know. That mistake, however, has been corrected ( Read more... )

At Readercon almost two years ago, sdn pulled me over after a panel and said "You like Megan Whalen Turner? Megan loves Elizabeth Wein. You should read Elizabeth Wein." (Henceforth: eegatland.) Ok, I said ( Read more... )

I was going to write a post about the awesomeness that is Elizabeth Wein's (aka, eegatland) series that starts with The Winter Prince, and how right sdn was when she told me to go read it. I even wrote the title in my little Semagic box. But then I had to go home, and I was tired, I was busy, and then OMG Cultural Appropriation! exploded on the internets ( Read more... )

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

Four (just four, no scores) years ago, when I graduated from college, I spent a good three months applying for lab tech jobs, watching Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis), and Firefly on my sister's computer, and otherwise emphatically vegging in her house. I think I may have been what is known as "burned out" - I still remember the feeling of being ( Read more... )

So my paid account expired and my Jaime Lannister icon is unreachable. But that won't stop me from linking to this post by GRRM telling one and all HBO has given the production order for The Game of Thrones pilot.

That news almost makes up for my 12-hour work day yesterday (and today mostly takes care of what's left).

I'm almost at the point where I'm ready to start reading again ( Read more... )

You know, I'm not that old a fogey (in fact, I'm something of a young fogey), but I can honestly say that I remember that time *cough*10yearsago*cough* when I was a wee mite reading the Master_Apprentice yahoo group (which I was led to by toshieri) and noting the very strong worded arguments that declared RPS as Off Limits (tm). And of course the whole ( Read more... )