Race Science

Race Science heading for rehabilitation from The Hindu

Last month, Mr. Pinker told the Edge website that "the dangerous idea of the next decade" will be the notion that "groups of people may differ genetically in their average talents and temperaments." It is all the more dangerous for being bound up with ideas about how populations vary in their susceptibility to disease. The implication is that we must take these ideas as a package.
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Over the years, the denial of race became almost absolute. Differences were only skin-deep, it was said — despite the common knowledge that certain groups had higher incidences of genetically influenced diseases. It became a taboo, and as the taboo starts to appear outdated or untenable, the danger is that unreflective denial will be replaced by equally uncritical acceptance.

This not the first article about race science that I am reading, it is something that is becoming a well know field of science.
How long it will be before this too will be used for or against someone? Good article none the less. 

Intresting isn't it!

Custom-Made Microbes, at Your Service from NYTimes

There are bacteria that blink on and off like Christmas tree lights and bacteria that form multicolored patterns of concentric circles resembling an archery target. Yet others can reproduce photographic images.

These are not strange-but-true specimens from nature, but rather the early tinkering of synthetic biologists, scientists who seek to create living machines and biological devices that can perform novel tasks.

"We want to do for biology what Intel does for electronics," said George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard and a leader in the field. "We want to design and manufacture complicated biological circuitry."

While much of the early work has consisted of eye-catching, if useless, stunts like the blinking bacteria, the emerging field could one day have a major impact on medicine and industry.

thought

I was trying to list the names of people who have crossed my life and was amazed how many memories came back... More than once I said to myself how the could I not remember that name? and when did I lose contact with this person?

Now I wish it had not rained and it would have a fantastic test match. 403/0doesn't that sound good :)

quote

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
-- Philip James Bailey

Firefox

Default browser not bad... eventually.

"Aadarsh Prem," Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan

Great I can see Hindi font when I create the post but it seems to appear as gibbrish when i publish it I have to figure this out in the mean time you guys can check out the poems on the site that I have listed below!
There are two more poems along with this one this page with anotations. "Mujhe Pukar lo" and "Kya Bhuloon"