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This is certainly not new news to the scientific community, but Carl Zimmer writes an interesting article about it anyways.more

Carl so eloquently states in his recent writing, The Sixty-Million-Year Virus, how our genome contains 8% junk viral DNA that is important to our evolution, as well as shows a positive link between our common ancestry with other primates. Chalk it up to one more piece of confirming evidence that speaks to a world view that many ignorant people fight so hard to keep out of our classrooms.

This article seems well suited for the non-science educated public, a talent that Carl seems to amaze me at all too often.

• Pictures of Pennies
  Coin stacking at it’s finest.
  (tags: art engineering cool)

• BBC NEWS: Man’s static jacket sparks alert
  This is so amazing, it has to be true… no one could ever make this story up.
  (tags: humor news)

• Best Accidental Discoveries
  Some amazing scientific discoveries have been produced through accidents… you might have heard of some of these, others probably not.
  (tags: Science)
• WordPress on a USB drive
  Oh my! I really have to try this.
  (tags: wordpress)

• NASA - Jupiter’s New Red Spot
  Backyard astronomers, grab your telescopes. Jupiter is growing a new red spot.
  (tags: science, space, nasa, astronomy)
• BBC News In pictures: Out of the blue
  Amazing underwater photos.
  (tags: photo underwater)
• news @ nature.com - Surprise organ discovered in mice - Mice are shown to have two thymus organs, not just one
  Mice are shown to have two thymus organs, not just one
  (tags: science biology)

• Pruned: More Gardens-in-a-Petri
  Billions and billions of bacterial landscape architects pruning — no less in environments poisoned with antibiotics — other bacterial landscape architects, dead or alive, to form dazzling arabesque parterres. The self-organizing embroidery of organisms
  (tags: science, biology,)
• Layout Gala
  A collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
  (tags: webdesign css layout html)