Tuesday, January 18, 2011

A Nugget

I frequently find little nuggets of interest at this website, on the rare occasions I peruse my bookmark list.
Here is one such nugget.

The Big Questions: What is Life? 13 December 2010 An excerpt from a recent article at MSNBC by Clara Moskowitz about the discovery of arsenic eating life forms:
"We don't have a very good definition of life," said researcher Christopher Voigt of the University of California, San Francisco, who works on synthetic biology. "It's a very abstract thing, what we call life, and at what point we say something doesn't have the necessary components versus it does, it just becomes way too murky."

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