Low-expectation microblogging- February 14, 2008 I started using twitter recently, at twitter.comnatfriedman. One of the things that's nice about twitter is that no one expects you to say anything really interesting there. "Blogging for retards" is another way to put that. It reminds me of Ze Frank's "keeping us company" (in a good way!).http://nat.org/blog/?p=820 Adventures in Personal Genetics- February 9, 2008 There are about 3 billion nucleotides in the 23 chromosomes of human DNA. For each nucleotide, there are four different nucleic acids (G, C, T, and A) to choose from, so each nucleotide contains 2 bits of information, and the total (uncompressed) data in the human DNA is about 715 Megabytes. Only about ...http://nat.org/blog/?p=819 Obama Event in Boston- February 3, 2008 For those of you in Boston tomorrow, February the 4th, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy and Governor Deval Patrick will be speaking at the Seaport World Trade Center at 8pm. The event is open to the public, but space is limited and they encourage that you RSVP. If you're still undecided going into Tuesday's primary, or ...http://nat.org/blog/?p=818 My first political fundraising- February 1, 2008 Thanks to everyone who contributed; we managed to pull in $5600 for Barack Obama the last few weeks. The money came from 39 different people, and the mean donation was $143.60. It took 20 days to raise this money, at a rate of $280day. Interestingly, most of the money was raised ...http://nat.org/blog/?p=817 |