Back in 'our day' Orn, we were footling about with algae and fungi trying to understand similar. These days I wouldn't have the patience or steady enough hand to fiddle with a needle trying to draw out a strand of DNA thin enough to X-ray etc. The modern 'white coats' are technically much more proficient and technologically enabled - lab science has been 'Fordised'. I'm now just left with the speculative fantasies of how we might get our own 'life' more determinedly into the biological. The interesting questions might well be about just how wrong our views on what life, consciousness and so on actually are. Leibniz springs to mind, so I'm off for a nap! An old story is playing itself out again in my life. It's the cricket saga of the eternal Ashes. Yet again, the last couple of days of the 5 match, each of 5 days series comes to an end. This time, the Australians are set the 'impossible' task of scoring more than 500 in the last innings of the series. This has never happened in history. Against history, England should have won already as the task has always been impossible in history. The Aussies hold the Ashes (which, of course, they can never really take to Australia as the Urn (not Orn) always resides at Lords whoever wins (usually the Aussies). This means they can still win by drawing, either by batting for two more days or creating an appropriate rain dance to prevent play. The whole of England currently fears the Aussies will be able to overturn history or summon the gods of rain and darkness, though history tells us they cannot, as some synchronizing effects of pitch decay, weather and frustrating jibes about parentage must collude in their downfall. No team has ever done what they must now do, but we fear they will. Interestingly, the England team on the verge of this great victory is a very poor one. Science always seems on the verge of such victory. Much in the way we should already have worked out cricket is not very important, we should have worked out science is not important because so much that is not science is. We vest our interests in the wrong games.
On 23 Aug, 06:42, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > J. Craig Venter Institute Researchers Clone and Engineer Bacterial > Genomes in Yeast and Transplant Genomes Back into Bacterial Cells > > New methods allow for the rapid engineering of bacterial chromosomes > and the creation of extensively modified bacterial species; should > also play key role in boot up of synthetic cell > > the rest of the story > at:http://www.jcvi.org/cms/press/press-releases/full-text/article/j-crai... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
