Thanks!

An interesting article. It mentions that "breeding dogs are no longer allowed on the island". I presume this is to avoid a feral population of dogs becoming established. However, I'm unaware that dogs pose particular threats to native wildlife, unlike cats.

Dogs are pretty terrible for nesting birds, especially ground nesting ones. Even on a leash they can cause birds to leave their nests.

Similar for other small animals;

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/managing-visitors...

Well, dogs are mentioned as one of the invasive species that caused the extinction of the Dodos.

Exactly. EU legislation is currently far more respecting of privacy than is legislation in the UK or the US.

For various, and unclear, reasons, there is substantial backing to change this.

In the UK, Apple is now blocking users from using any web browser to access "non-PG" content unless the user submits to privacy violating age verification. Apple blocks you at the OS level, making VPNs useless.

I'm suspicious as well...

Supposedly this missile was hit during the boost phase over Iran, the evidence is that it was actually targeted at Diego Garcia relies on US reports.

The article above doesn't read well, at all.

It's not my subject, but it reads as a list of things. There's little exposition.

Gawd Damn LISTICLES!!!! And all of those articles that list in bullet points at the top of the article the summary of the article. And all of those people saying they don't want to read exposition, just give me the bullet points.

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The pay wall doesn't permit much access to the details of this. A better summary is available at the UK's MRC website, link below.

https://mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/articles/bridging-the-gap-f...

Winston Churchill famously used to build brick walls to deal with the "black dog" of depression.

The International Churchill Society has an pretty fun read about his bricklaying "career".

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest...

Thanks, that was a better-written article than the above.

Yes, it's very elegant! It's one of those things you wish you had thought of yourself. Kudos to these guys for being first.

I briefly scanned the paper. The above summary is garbage.

For a biologist, a summary might be like this: pcr fragments are generated with short reverse complementary sequences added to the end of one fragment that match that at the begining of the next to-be-joined fragment.

These will anneal to create a cross-shaped DNA molecule. The short arms of the cross being the complementary sequences. Like so:

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The short arms can then be processed-off to leave behind the now-longer fragment. The process can be repeated using different reverse complementary sequences between each fragment, the "page numbers" referred to.

So do the complementary sequences naturally bind to their neighbors? So you just mix the “pages” in a soup for a while until they all find their friends. And then the custom enzyme (or what is it) just slices off the three way junctions?

Really clever.

That's right.

It's one of those elegant solutions that just seem so obvious once they're presented. But this lot did it first.