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Human beta globin has held a special place in my heart due to its rather prominent role in the Evolution-Creation 'debate'. It just got a neat evolutionary upgrade :)
If you want to kill some time, try to think of all the different definitions of the word "set". You have chess sets, sets in tennis, sets of dishes, sets musicians play, sets as abstract mathematical entities, television sets.
"Two recent studies by teams in the U.S. and the Netherlands have shown that the gamma-ray excess at the galactic center is speckled, not smooth as we would expect for a dark matter signal.
"I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism and light, also electricity and light, and the field it opens is so large and I think rich." -Michael Faraday