12.31.07

Sci links

Posted in links at 6:20 pm by nemo

gnxp/yahoo

Greenland’s interior is a solid sheet of ice — hundreds of miles of
frozen terrain that is seemingly inhospitable for life. But when NPR’s
Richard Harris traveled dozens of miles inland on the ice sheet, he
discovered that it’s not as lifeless as you would expect.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17696880

Review of A Life Decoded: My Genome - My Life By J. Craig Venter

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/12/30/mind_brilliant_pen_just_so_so/

More than 100,000 people, including children as young as 10, will be
asked to provide saliva tests and DNA samples in a new annual survey
of the lives, behaviour and beliefs of people in the United Kingdom.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2233299,00.html

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