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Boffins don't give a sh!t, slap Trump's face on a turd in science journal
A pair of boffins are in hot water after the image of President Donald Trump made an unexpected cameo in a paper on how to gather animal DNA from their poop at scale.
The paper [open, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20427-9] [DX], which was published in Nature Scientific Reports, discusses the difficulties of gaining high-quality DNA samples from wild animals in a non-invasive way. Feces is the obvious option, but it is dominated by DNA from other organisms, such as bacteria – so the authors proposed a way to enrich the desired animal's DNA from the sample.
However, the pair also buried an Easter egg in a figure depicting the method, which shows a baboon sitting next to an average-sized turd. And on that turd, is a tiny image of the leader of the free world.
[...] Here's a close-up of the image in question:
— Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) December 17, 2018
[...] "The editors have become aware of unusual aspects to the 'Extract fecal DNA' illustration in figure 1. We are investigating, and appropriate editorial action will be taken once the matter is resolved," a note said.
Here is the graphic referenced:
Figure 1: | Scientific Reports
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @07:18PM (3 children)
I for one enjoy following your crazy country (or federation). I never understood what it is. Are the States the countries in the Federation or.. is it like a country with regions? I consider America the teenager kid of Europe, with a lot of party and crazy things going on. Mother Europe hope you don't get hurt and make the same mistakes she has. She is not going to bring up her distaste for your recent orange boyfriend, but instead let you learn from the experience. You are great, mommy loves you. Remember to call.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 19 2018, @01:17AM (2 children)
First one, then the other.
Our federal government was initially quite limited, but over the years it has consistently aggregated power for itself while diminishing the role of the individual states, with the pleasant effect of placing power farther from the individual voter, and decreasing effective representation in lawmaking. Suits those in power quite nicely.
If one of us is to not make the same mistakes as the other already has, maybe it's you guys who should be paying attention -- the EU is following the same path.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday December 19 2018, @03:02PM
The Federal government is like Unix. It started out as a few essential services.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @04:20PM
If only I could get the Nationalist and the Hippie Communist parties of my country to work together, we might be able to get out of the European soon to be Federation, or could you perhaps make Mr. Orange say something nice about how the EU is becoming a real Federation like America, because that's not what the Europeans are being told. Our politicians lie straight to our faces saying this banana is not a banana, every time there is a vote.