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To: Solon who wrote (45435)	1/23/2014 7:49:37 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

That pygmi gecko came from FaceBook's "Evolutionary Biology" page, which provides lots of good food for thought, numerous interesting facts to devour, wonderful information to digest, for starving minds stewing in too much ignorance. But always remember, according to gweg, nothing emerges or ever evolves, it was just created, big difference chump, so there! facebook.com Like this discovery of a pair of gigantic viruses with huge genomes which could redefine our understanding of life. The viruses, named pandoraviruses after their resemblance to Greek vases and the myth of Pandora's box, are the largest viruses known t...o science. They measure about 1 micrometre (that's one thousandth of a millimetre) long and half a micrometre wide) and were found infecting amoebas in Chile and Australia. The genomes of pandoraviruses are as unexpectedly big as they are, with a colossal 2,500 genes. Viruses don't need many genes at all, often having around 10 (think of how successful HIV is with only 9). But the biggest surprise is that 93% of pandoravirus genes (about 2,300) are completely new to biology and cannot be linked to any other lineage. The researchers believe both these unknown genes and the ones pandoraviruses share with other giant viruses provide evidence for a fourth domain of life, a new branch to go alongside the Eukaryota, Bacteria and Archaea. The fact that the two pandoraviruses were found on different continents and are both unlike any known giant viruses is certainly intriguing. The team hope pandoravirus origins will emerge as they find out more about what its mysterious genes do, perhaps supporting their hypothesis that giant viruses like these evolved from cells. Photo: Pandoravirus particle under an electron microscope. Credit to Chantal Abergel and Jean-Michel Claverie. http://www.nature.com/news/giant-viruses-open-pandora-s-box-1.13410 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130718-viruses-pandoraviruses-science-biology-evolution/ http://io9.com/newly-discovered-pandoravirus-could-redefine-life-as-827838228See More

To: Solon who wrote (45435)	1/23/2014 8:17:19 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"From Quarks to Quasars" has some fun stuff & over 1mil followers (more than the Pope) facebook.com Speaking of followers & social media, this personal wall sharing site has reached a *138Bil valuation* today and Twitter 1/3 of that at 40Bil. Princeton just recently did a study that forcast Facebook will lose 80% of its users by 2018 then Facebook responded with its own data suggesting “Princeton will have only half its current enrollment by 2018, and by 2021 it will have no students at all,” (wrote a wry Mike Develin, a scientist at Facebook.) Is this market in nosebleed territory or is this just another one of brumars marxist illusions?