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Submission + - Searching for Mark Pilgrim (meyerweb.com)

microphage writes: Mark Pilgrim, author of many "Dive into.." books and guides, has — as the saying now goes — "committed infosuicide", which happily isn't like the real sort. Except it affects your info that you've created. Let's hope Dive Into HTML5 has some sort of permanence.
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Submission + - A Genetically Engineered Fly That Can Smell Light (discovermagazine.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: It sounds like a cool--if somewhat pointless--super powered insect. A fly that can smell light! Researchers added a light-sensitive protein to a fruit fly's olfactory neurons, which caused the neurons to fire when the fly was exposed to a certain wavelength of blue light. Adding the protein specifically to neurons that respond to good smells, like bananas, makes for a light-seeking fly.

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