Links for a lazy Thursday

• Encoding poetry into bacterial DNA - This is pretty neat, but I doubt it will work the way he wants. Bacteria are rather careless with their DNA. They trade, clip, chop, drop and otherwise mess with their own DNA a lot. A highly specific sequence wouldn't remain unchanged for very long. He might have better luck with a creature that has mitochondrial DNA.

• Beautiful video: "Nature by Numbers" (seen at bioephemera, an awesome blog, btw)

• New species of ancient human identified

• Mosquito Control with Lasers - I hope this is the future of pest control. No more broad spectrum chemicals. Precise control of exactly the pest you want to kill with few environmental effects.

• Gardening: Let the bugs chew on your plants