The Twice Forbidden Fruit...

For a while now I have been fascinated by apples. Ever since I learnt, from one of the thousands of docos (Apples: British to the Core) I watch, how the species of apples I love came about and are propagated.

Now there's this... Joe Davis plans to use synthetic biology to insert a DNA-encoded version of Wikipedia into the apple and create a living, literal tree of knowledge.

“I can fit the whole Wikipedia in a small forest, in—let’s call it a very large grove,” he explained.

It's a whopper of a read - especially at this time of night.


As an aside - I worked super hard today (reflective teaching practise) - has been helpful that I am dramatically reducing the amount of time I am logged into Facebook and the amount of times per day I am checking it.
It was getting to the stage where I forgot what to do with the rest of the internet.