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...just like last time. But without a catchy melody, it doesn’t come even close, sounding tossed-off instead of cohesive. The album’s biggest problem is simply that it’s not as fun as its predecessor. While the first album was sometimes dark in its treatment of sex and drugs, “Ta-Dah” seems to anticipate a rapidly approaching Judgment Day with every song. The Sisters seem to have taken a page from Rufus Wainwright’s songbook, lacing every track with Biblical allusions and crises of faith...
...Argentines are haunted by the horrors of the past, that may be because the dark forces responsible for the "disappearance" of thousands of people at the hands of their country's last military dictatorship appear to be very much alive - and as willing as ever to resort to violence against their foes. Two weeks ago, a key witness whose testimony had recently helped put a major human-rights offender in prison for life disappeared in a manner reminiscent of the methods employed by Argentina's military 30 years...
BLOGGING ABOUT HIGHER education is all the rage these days, with US News' Paper Trail, Richard Bradley's Shots in the Dark and the Chronicle of Higher Education's News Blog, to name just a few. This summer saw the addition of two Ivy-focused blogs: IvyGate and IvyLeak. Today they get profiled in the Brown Daily Herald and the New York Sun (question for the latter: why?), and the mud flies. Here's a quick summary of both pieces...
Those molecular switches lie in the noncoding regions of the genome--once known dismissively as junk DNA but lately rechristened the dark matter of the genome. Much of the genome's dark matter is, in fact, junk--the residue of evolutionary events long forgotten and no longer relevant. But a subset of the dark matter known as functional noncoding DNA, comprising some 3% to 4% of the genome and mostly embedded within and around the genes, is crucial. "Coding regions are much easier for us to study," says Carroll, whose new book, The Making of the Fittest...
What causes changes in both the dark matter and the genes themselves as one species evolves into another is random mutation, in which individual base pairs--the "letters" of the genetic alphabet--are flipped around like a typographical error. These changes stem from errors that occur during sexual reproduction, as DNA is copied and recombined. Sometimes long strings of letters are duplicated, creating multiple copies in the offspring. Sometimes they're deleted altogether or even picked up, turned around and reinserted backward. A group led by geneticist Stephen Scherer of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has identified...