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Or 280 Billion Haagen-Dazs Bars

Sep 29, 2008

If you had the choice between buying 32,407 Alvin submarines or bailing out the US economy, what would you do? (We know, it's a tough call.) Jonathan Eisen tries to get his head around the $700 billion bailout effort here in the US by blogging about what else that money could buy. His list includes: 280,000 liters of Taq polymerase, 538 million open access fees for publishing in PLoS One, and registration fees for 350 million people to go to the AGBT meeting in Marco Island. That would be one crowded plenary session.

 

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