Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

http://www.google.com/patents/US4022227

Jessie J gets a surprise visit from a special guest - YouTube

that game is unpossible.

Yes.

F that game.

ain't nobody doge time for that

http://i.imgur.com/cY3rQ4Q.jpg

Bit of a cunt is Tristram Hunt

I dont know anything about Tristram Hunt, but my assumption would be that he was merely being silly with that post? He may be a cunt in other respects.

Spoof account, as is made completely clear in the profile:
https://twitter.com/DrTristramHunt

The rather less controversial real Tristram Hunt MP:
https://twitter.com/TristramHuntMP

Parody account.

Barely.

Ugh. Pipped to the post. Now I feel a fool.

We humans are already on the brink of mastering biology to fit our own whims,

How do you know how much there is left to learn? Is this you..

How do you know how much there is left to learn? Is this you..

It doesnt matter how much there is left to learn, the novice just copies the master till they figure it out. Biotech is all go, the pace of development is crazy - has a lot of similarities with computing. A thousand years would be less than a blink in the scheme of things, but its just going to be decades before synthetic biology is everywhere, creating this stuff in the lab is already routine. You can 'print' out dna you knocked up on the computer, inject it into a host cell and hey presto, you have a custom designed synthetic organism.

Retrofitting three dimensional function into linear genetic code is still a ways you off, practically speaking. Especially for Eukaryotes. And the regulation of the transcript is definitely something that will be almost impossible to control in a meaningful way.

But yes. The mystery is solved for sure.

I love it when people talk actual science.

? ;) Lots of interesting new discoveries reported in New Scientist, and an Open Gene project has been set up to prevent companies doing all discoveries and then patenting genes. The company bastards have patented genes of remote tribes for example...

It doesnt matter how much there is left to learn, the novice just copies the master till they figure it out. Biotech is all go, the pace of development is crazy - has a lot of similarities with computing. A thousand years would be less than a blink in the scheme of things, but its just going to be decades before synthetic biology is everywhere, creating this stuff in the lab is already routine. You can 'print' out dna you knocked up on the computer, inject it into a host cell and hey presto, you have a custom designed synthetic organism.

Dunning Kruger

Bookmarked.

John Cleese Explaining Stupidity - YouTube

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Ha Ha Ha Ha - YouTube

https://twitter.com/ailsabm/status/433154713232867328