Xeeban’s Musings

The Butlerian Jihad (Dune Series) by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert

Not a book in the same great company as Frank Herbert’s Dune series, this book by his son and Kevin Anderson still does a good job of entertaining. Since its a prequel book, its dealing with events that are historical (maybe even mythical) in the Dune series. Here we see the Machines who control the majority of mankind and the struggles of those who seek to overthrow their oppressors.

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http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,63203,00.html

Last week, Japanese researchers created a fatherless mouse using only female eggs, and turned the reproduction world on its head. The word on the street was men’s role in baby making might one day be obsolete.

Okay I seriously doubt we’ll vanish into a single sex race (we’re too useful for the non-reproductive parts of the process…), but its pretty cool that they’ve managed to reproduce mice through parthenogenesis.