"People would like to see a hairy elephant."

-George Church, director of computational genomics at Harvard Medical School

Looks like scientists can extract most of a woolly mammoth's genome from frozen hair found in Siberian permafrost, so it's conceivable that they could create a living woolly mammoth or a hybrid woolly elephant in the next 10-20 years. Just think of the implications.... They could remake those computer-animated Ice Age movies with live animals!

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2008-11-19-mammoth-dna_N.htm

Now What?

"Six ways Obama can show he'll be a different kind of president."

I especially like #3: "Work without pay."

http://www.slate.com/id/2203761/pagenum/all/

B.O.

I'm glad Obama's going to be our next president. I actually found his acceptance speech somewhat inspiring. No US president has ever inspired me before.