"The tropical rain fell into large sheets that soaked to the bone ..." Thus began the prologue of Jurassic Park. I well remember when Fernando Savater wrote criticism on the novel by Michael Crichton in Christmas of 91, just saying "if you have two pairs of pants sell and buy yourself a book. I devoured this novel in a couple of nights. The author, unfortunately, died last month from cancer. Still can not clone dinosaurs but who knows what awaits us.
These days two scientific publications transported me back to the world of "Jurassic Park ." The first was the partial decoding of the genome sequence of the mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius ) from DNA fragments obtained from frozen hair remains found in Siberia. Second, the cloning of mice that had been kept frozen in the laboratory for over 15 years from some of their cells. Wow, this really gives to another novel, maybe, some kind of hominid could have cloned a second chance to overcome the development.
Good films, both fiction and science of any other genre, are much more good the more convincing are their arguments. Recently, the Hollywood entertainment world has decided to build bridges with the scientific community through an exchange program called SEE (Science & Entertainment Exchange ). Can you imagine together Nobel Laureates and filmmakers talking about climate change, robotic or infectious diseases?. The first meeting recently at a spectacular skyscraper near the Mecca of film, and stressed the journal Science, may help the business of turning dreams into reality has certainly a more realistic basis. Follow, In any case, dreaming and inventing the future from the Siberian underground.
Good films, both fiction and science of any other genre, are much more good the more convincing are their arguments. Recently, the Hollywood entertainment world has decided to build bridges with the scientific community through an exchange program called SEE (Science & Entertainment Exchange ). Can you imagine together Nobel Laureates and filmmakers talking about climate change, robotic or infectious diseases?. The first meeting recently at a spectacular skyscraper near the Mecca of film, and stressed the journal Science, may help the business of turning dreams into reality has certainly a more realistic basis. Follow, In any case, dreaming and inventing the future from the Siberian underground.
