Sunday 27 April 2003

Forget Jurassic Park... Here comes Permafrost Park. In the Michael Crichton's novel Jurassic Park, and the subsequent movies, scientists created dinosaurs from DNA recovered from fossilised mosquitos. Many real-life experts poured scorn on this idea. But now scientists have recovered DNA between 10,000 and 395,000 years old from the Siberian Permafrost. According to New Scientist Eske Willerslev and a team from the University of Copenhagen recovered DNA from 28 families of plants and eight species of mammals including mammoths, steppe bison and musk ox. 12:25:58 AM    comment []  Google It!

All the world's a blog and all the men and women merely bloggers I wish I had come up with that headline myself but credit must go to onlineblog.com. Still, check out The World As a Blog. It's a real cool site and if this doesn't inspire you to add geo coding to your site than nothing will. The World As A Blog uses geo coding and Weblogs.com to create an almost real time map of the world showing the location of recently updated blogs. 12:01:50 AM    comment []  Google It!

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