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Sonntag, 18. Mai 2008

bunnie recounts: "The last time he took a Chinese group to downtown LA, for example, [Chinese tour operator Vincent Bao] says they got off the bus, rolled their eyes, and said it reminded them of any number of small Chinese cities. They then demanded to be taken to Rodeo drive, so they could shop."

2008-05-18-smallCities

Carl Zimmer's Microcosm (the "startlingly original biography of a germ", namely E. coli), doubly recommended. Gotta get.

2008-05-18-wonderWorm

"All the cells in our body are descendants of a single cell -- the fertilized egg. Some cells are relatively close descendants, having undergone a small number of cell divisions, while other cells may be hundreds or even thousands of divisions deep. So far, science was unable to provide even gross estimates for the depths of the vast majority of human and mouse cells. In this study, we show that precise depth estimates of cells can be obtained from the analysis of non-hazardous mutations that spontaneously accumulate during normal development."