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NYT article on genes

Here, by the incredibly young, handsome and way too successful Carl Zimmer, late of the Seed stable. Carl brings to mind my favourite Truman Capote saying: It is not enough to succeed. Friends must be seen to have failed. Anyway, go read the bastard’s excellent essay. I will just sit…

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  1. I have all 7 volumes of Girl Genius on dead trees and am awaiting the publication of the eighth. This is fun stuff.

  2. I have all 7 volumes of Girl Genius on dead trees and am awaiting the publication of the eighth. This is fun stuff.

  4. Remember everyone: this is just a play.
    It usually takes a strong Heterodyne about two hours to truly warp the laws of nature!

  5. Remember everyone: this is just a play.
    It usually takes a strong Heterodyne about two hours to truly warp the laws of nature!

  6. Remember everyone: this is just a play.
    It usually takes a strong Heterodyne about two hours to truly warp the laws of nature!

  7. The original is known as Clarke’s Third Law Corollary and goes, “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”
    Who said it?
    Me.
    Keep in mind that Girl Genius is set in a steampunk fantasy world with tons of weird science. A heterodyne is basically a wizard who uses technology to actuate his magic. When inspired a heterodyne can perform feats of technology that are down right magical. GG is basically making fun of technological wonder stories from the mid to late 19th century on up to, in a sense, today.

  8. The original is known as Clarke’s Third Law Corollary and goes, “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”
    Who said it?
    Me.
    Keep in mind that Girl Genius is set in a steampunk fantasy world with tons of weird science. A heterodyne is basically a wizard who uses technology to actuate his magic. When inspired a heterodyne can perform feats of technology that are down right magical. GG is basically making fun of technological wonder stories from the mid to late 19th century on up to, in a sense, today.

  9. The original is known as Clarke’s Third Law Corollary and goes, “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.”
    Who said it?
    Me.
    Keep in mind that Girl Genius is set in a steampunk fantasy world with tons of weird science. A heterodyne is basically a wizard who uses technology to actuate his magic. When inspired a heterodyne can perform feats of technology that are down right magical. GG is basically making fun of technological wonder stories from the mid to late 19th century on up to, in a sense, today.

  10. Alan you mean a spark. Sparks are the technology wizards in Girl Genius. Heterodynes are a particularly dynasty which the main character Agatha is descended from (this isn’t a massive spoiler one finds this out early in volume I).

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