Wow! If I ever reach that elusive apex of my academic career and actually teach science at the college level I am going to remember that. It was the best description of how genes function I've seen. No mumbo jumbo, just really well described and simplified facts. Love it.

anybody else notice they used the "porno" music from "Orgazmo?"

They actually used the soundtrack from Orgazmo, as I could hear the orgasmic groans of one of the lady actors. Pretty damned hilarious.

Thanks so much, Norm. You have led me to so many interesting things!!!!

"really out to subscribe to" ought? sorry,... love your site.

Related article by Sean Carroll (the biologist, not the astrophysicist) in Natural History Magazine from a few years ago.

More pretty pictures in Carroll's book "Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo" (W.W. Norton, 2005).

So correct only a scientist could appreciate it, yet so simple only an idiot or the president will be left behind.

Just kidding, should there be any secret service guys out there waiting to make their bones.

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This is cool, but science isn't a collection of facts, and these little 60 second bits make it look that way.

I second that recommendation to subscribe. I've had it on my ipod for about 2 years now. Very concise and Steve Mirsky can be pretty humorous as well.