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We Like to Call It DNA Day

Feb 13, 2007

Go to the home page of Wikipedia, the online, collaborative encyclopedia that anyone can edit, and you will see that today’s featured article is about, yep, DNA! Congratulations, DNA, you’ve officially arrived. Not only are you the center of the genomics era, but you’re also headlining in Web 2.0’s celebrated new genre, the wiki.

And if that wasn’t enough to make a scientist blush, yesterday was Darwin’s birthday; in post-celebratory fashion, the
Kansas state school board will vote today on whether to dump science standards that dispute his theory of evolution.

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