Do you know where your towel is?
Today is Towel Day, an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.
Tag: dna
The latest long-term storage mechanism is… DNA
The study reported that the institute’s team had stored all 154 Shakespeare sonnets, a photo, a PDF of a scientific paper, and a 26-second sound clip from US civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I Have a Dream” speech in a barely visible bit of DNA in a test tube. The only problem with this is that in the future Johnny Menmonic might be mistaken as a documentary…
