{"id":3235,"date":"2003-01-08T14:32:55","date_gmt":"2003-01-08T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2003-01-08T14:32:55","modified_gmt":"2003-01-08T19:32:55","slug":"crime_against_n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/08\/crime_against_n.html","title":{"rendered":"Crime against Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, I think it’s cool that scientists have been experimenting with encoding information on non-functional chunks of bacterial DNA, thus demonstrating it can be used as a stable storage medium even after a hundred generations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that what they encoded was “It’s a Small World After All” is not only criminal, it might very well qualify as bacteriological warefare …<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, I think it’s cool that scientists have been experimenting with encoding information on non-functional chunks of bacterial DNA, thus demonstrating it can be used as a stable storage medium…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1410,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/11\/feed_a_cold_sta.html","url_meta":{"origin":3235,"position":0},"title":"Feed a cold, starve a fever","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Jan-02 2:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, really. 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