Two Excellent Links
Two very cool links from Robot Wisdom Weblog.First, a link to a story over at New Scientist that will blow you away. Here's the lead:
A new microscope sensitive enough to track the real-time motion of a single protein, right down to the scale of its individual atoms, has revealed how genes are copied from DNA – a process essential to life.
The novel device allows users to achieve the highest-resolution measurements ever, equivalent to the diameter of a single hydrogen atom, says Steven Block, who designed it with colleagues at Stanford University in California.
Block was able to use the microscope to track a molecule of DNA from an E.coli bacterium, settling a long-standing scientific debate about the precise method in which genetic material is copied for use.
Meanwhile, I'm sitting here writing columns about my ass. That's me--Mr. High Achiever.
Here's the link:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8319.
Second, a stunning 7000x6000 panorama of Vancouver, my favorite city in the world. It's amazing (both the city and the panorama):
http://tinyurl.com/cr927.
If that image shows up as very small and you're using Windows, you can click on it and the picture-control-thingie pops up. Click in the center of that and the image will be significantly larger.
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