Long Genome, Lively Book

Five years ago, guitar player, raconteur, writer, genome geek and Duke professor Misha Angrist surrendered his DNA to the eyes of the public, and to his own restless, rambunctious curiosity. Over at the fine site LabLit, Richard Grant takes a smart, lively look at the smart, lively book that resulted: The history of science and medicine […]

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Sneaking into Google Street View … with your sneakers

Richard Grant, an editor at Faculty 1000, has pulled a weird coup of the hyperlinked, meta-mapped, internet age: Not content to try to find a picture of himself or his house on Google Streetview, he put himself in the picture: made it happen. Involved a camera, quick feet, and a low-speed pursuit of a Google […]

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