#“The most important scientific breakthrough in human history?”
via ted.com
It certainly feels like it to me.
How many newspapers ran with it as their headline and lead story?
The implications are staggering.
One of the messages they have encoded in the DNA is a quote from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
"To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life"
And what did they cover this week on the most watched show on Irish television? An old actor, a washed up politician, a religious nutcase and a ridiculous pub band.
No wonder Joyce got the hell out of here.