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Great Interview Week continues in a scientific vein today. In last week’s Nature, a paper coming out of Dee Carter’s lab at the University of Sydney described the discovery of a previously unknown marine species. That, in itself, is noteworthy. However, the organism they found – an unremarkable unicellular brown alga – turns out to [...]

“Your oldest brother was away at a home
and you didn’t meet him ’til you was nineteen years old
Old enough to know better, old enough to know better
but you took to his jaw line and long sandy hair…”
The Drive-By Truckers – “The Deeper In”
Geneticists love nothing more than a good inbred organism with which to work [...]

“Thought of you as my mountain top,
Thought of you as my peak.
Thought of you as everything,
I’ve had but couldn’t keep.
Linger on, your pale blue eyes.”
-The Velvet Underground – “Pale Blue Eyes”
The instant that my blue-eyed son Zach was born – to a green-eyed mother and brown-eyed father – I became interested in the genetics of [...]