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...little Canadian company has done for DNA collection what Google did for Web searches: made it ridiculously simple and efficient. Ottawa-based DNA Genotek has developed a device that allows you to collect and store a sample of DNA by just spitting into a small plastic vial. Closing the lid on the gadget, called Oragene, releases a chemical that stabilizes the saliva, allowing it to be easily shipped and stored indefinitely. It's a huge advantage over getting a blood sample (inefficient) or swabbing the inside of the mouth (less stable...
...after visiting a local school. Only one of the students she met read the paper - most got news online. "We had to adopt a more diverse approach to getting our message out," Kelly says. She needed an expert - and hired an 18-year-old. "He had a MySpace site done for me within an hour. He knows how to upload videos and get his friends onto the site. We call him our techno-gecko...
...Cult of iPod by Leander Kahney I felt embarrassed holding this book at the COOP, because the cover—a bird’s eye view of someone with an old-fashioned iPod click wheel shaved into his head—was already obsolete. Or maybe this was done on purpose, to show what a rebel the cover model is. Yeah, that’s gotta be it! Wild haircut, hardened visage: the guy looks like a criminal possessed of almost monk-like concentration. And hey, if joining the iPod Cult can make that guy cool, then maybe...
...pretty clear I’m Brown’s target audience. Although a couple of his songs prove to be a little cheesy (and grammatically incorrect), I find myself singing along. In “Lottery,” he proclaims, “I think I done hit the lottery” after scoring a girl’s number. Similarly, “Picture Perfect” features a flurry of camera snaps and oohs and ahhs before Brown opens the song with, “You might have seen her on every cover of every magazine...
...directors.RR: What inspired you to direct this show?NJ: Well, I think it started when Allegra and I saw “Cats” and then we thought what if “Cats” was staged on hot metal?AR: If we hadn’t done “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” we briefly considered doing “Kittens on Hot Metal,” which would have been the rated R version.RR: Tennessee Williams is said to have hated the 1958 film version...