Wonderful article by Michelle Slatalla in the NY Times about the new DNA genealogy service from Ancestry.com. My team at ProductCore designed and built the service for Ancestry. It was a design challenge to provide enough depth in the service to satisfy the hobbyists while keeping it simple enough for regular folks.
Great books
Jared M. Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel
History as a Darwinian process.Geoffrey A. Moore: Inside the Tornado
We're all competing in tornadoes these days.Boyce Rensberger: Life Itself
Biology as nanomachines. Blew my mind.Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate
Required reading for parents.David Brin: The Transparent Society
As is often the case, the first 2 chapters are all you need to read. An exciting, alarming, and realistic view of the the future.
