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The current edition of the New Yorker magazine has a fascinating story about endogenous retroviruses in the genomes of humans and other species. Although researchers have known about such non-functional retroviral 'fossils' in the human genome for some time, the large amount of recent genomic data underscores just how pervasive they are, in a compelling tale that involves humans, their primate cousins, and a variety of viral invaders. Some researchers are even bringing back non-functional viral remnants from the dead by fixing their broken genes.

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An anonymous reader writes "There's a new video report about a Kansas State professor who got 2 million + hits with his video on YouTube that's basically a video version of his scholarly paper about Web 2.0. Will scholars start to make their points via online video instead of just print papers? (article)"