The Double Helix History Word Tour ™ has been continuing in full swing over recent weeks with talks and workshops in Canberra and Sydney, focus groups in Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield and interviews across Greater Manchester and Yorkshire as we continued our push...
Category: Popular genetics
Thoughts on family history in Australia
After a busy few weeks of events, interviews, and focus groups in July and early August in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, we have had some time to listen back to our recordings, transcribe and categorise the responses received ad reflect on our many conversations...
Stephen McGann talks about his book ‘Flesh and Blood’
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DNA Art
How do we visualize DNA? How might we ‘see’ it? How is this ‘thing’ materialized in the imagination, conceived of, constructed? I wrote about some ways of modelling it in another blog, but recently I’ve been thinking more about aesthetic representations. The last time...
Family History LIVE
In October I was in Dublin where I visited the Back to Our Past event that was held at the Royal Dublin Society buildings. This is a huge event, sponsored by Ancestry, attached to an even wider fair presenting a whole range of products and services aimed at retired...
Blog: DNA testing goes popular (and daytime)
In this clip from his late night TV show on the 6 October, the comedian Stephen Colbert look at the rapidly expanding market for direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT). Colbert points out how direct to consumer genetic testing is ‘big business’, expected to be...
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