Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early, packed everything into the car, roof-box, etc. Off to see Sandra's to swim in the pool again - M. finally shed her fear of the water and started swimming lengths at crazy speed in her swimming ring, good.
Picked some apples, had lunch, bid 'bye to the parents & thanks for their help, and set off to drive home. Three and a bit hours later (a very clear drive) arrived.
Unpacked variously, fed the babes, read them stories. Started on the inbox, oh dear ... perhaps a mistake; but it's a bank holiday on Monday too it seems.
Interested to read that Wheat has been tentatively sequenced:
The wheat genome is the largest genome decoded to date. It is five times larger than the human genome and is known to be a very complex structure, comprised of three independent genomes.(BBC)
Interesting - if you were astounded by having an ~identical genome to a chimpanzee, perhaps it is time to get a bigger-is-better inferiority complex going with your breakfast cereal; alternatively - time to start collecting base-pairs (or chromosomes ?).

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2010-08-28: Saturday.