You know, I’m not a prude. I’ve been known to tell an off-color joke or two. I don’t presume to exude good taste nor do I get squeamish easily. But my God, every day I have to purge the most disgusting and perplexing spam, full of acts I’ve either never heard of or else are physiologically impossible.
I just wanted you to know what you’re missing. That is all.
I work as the Science Editor for the Duke University Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (although this site and its content are my own).
In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
This blog may also discuss some of my non-genome interests or, to paraphrase Dwight Yoakam, "Guitars, Cadillacs, hillbilly music, etc etc."
The header image comes from the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's multimedia performance piece, "Ferocious Beauty: Genome."
May 9th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Helix’s “contact us” email inbox is loaded with Russian Depravity! every morning at about 3 am EST the onslaught begins…..
-Steve
www.helixhealth.org
May 9th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
That’s some of my favorite depravity…
May 28th, 2008 at 12:06 am
I feel your pain. I just crossed the 30,000 spam comment threshold recently.