Exploring Life’s Origins

The Museum of Science in Boston has a great new website up called Exploring Life’s Origins.  The site, which is visually stunning, showcases the work of Janet Iwasa, a 2006-2008 NSF Discovery Corps Postdoctoral Fellow and Jack Szostak and his laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.

There are three main sections – A Timeline of Life’s Evolution, Understanding the RNA World and
Building a Protocell.  The Resources for Educators section allows you to download the movies (which are available under a Creative Commons (Non-Commercial, No Derivatives) license – basically they’re free to use for non-commercial purposes as long as you give proper attribution.

H/T Panda’s Thumb.

Back

Yeah, I’ve been in hiding for the last week and a half.  Or busy.  Or something.  And there’s nothing like an enforced absence to get you out of the habit.  (Blogging is, more than anything else, a habit.)  But I’m back and well-rested.

(So many times you come across a defunct blog in which the last post is “I’m back, I’ve been gone for a while but…”  This will not be such a post.  At the very least there will be another, more recent post.)