Inspirograph

Remember all the fun you had as a kid with your Spirograph, making lovely creations that your folks never considered “artful” enough to keep? You can have that fun again anytime you like, with no ink blotches, torn paper, or plastic pieces to step on! Software developer Nathan Friend has an online version of the classic Spirograph called Inspirograph, that may well suck up the next few hours of your time. If you don't know what you want, look through the gallery for inspiration. -via Metafilter

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THAT, is a big deal. I mean whoohoo, a zebra subspecies, but that's no the point. It's humans attempting to bring back something that is extinct. That's the hugeness of this news.

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Thats what fascinated me about this. We already breed animals for certain traits, and we can now map genes. Breeding existing animals to match a gene map of a bygone animal is a whole new area.

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That's certainly a neat project, but besides the "wow, we can do it" factor, what's the value?

So the quagga is extinct - we humans live on and have improved living conditions since the late 19th century. Why do we need a zebra subspecies?

Just thinking outloud.

Now, if it was a giant woolly mammoth, THAT'll be different! :)

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Hey Alex--I'm currently sticking my tongue out at you, out loud. ;-)

I like the fact that humans are genuinely trying to bring back something that humans made extinct through their own ignorance. It gives me hope that we haven't thoroughly mired ourselves in exactly that thought of "Oh well, that's just the way it goes, it's dead and gone but WE must go on, etc."

And frankly, it's better research than engineering a subcutaneous bra... ;-)

--TwoDragons

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