UC Berkeley. Go Bears!

Feels like scaremongering from Reason to me. Your cough almost certainly isn't bird flu. Worldwide mortality rates for a bird flu pandemic are predicted to be closer to 5% of infected -- akin to the spanish influenza, but not going to wipe out humanity completely.

Check out gems such as:
"What happens if the stem cells turn into human sperm and egg and then the mice mate? Does anyone really want a human embryo growing inside a mouse?" (We certainly don't.) And yet, that's the sort of risk we're courting by carelessly toying with the building blocks of life. Even more dangerous..."

Incredibly improbable, and the resulting embryo would hardly be viable or expected to last. To suggest that such an incident would be either possible through routine experimentation or risky for humanity in some way is absurd.

Cory, I don't think the author's a college student...

"How old are you? What do you do in real life?

I'm a 50-year-old male computer programmer, and I'm also the main webmaster of the Firesign Theatre website."

None of this made any sense when I was a senior-year undergraduate in complex analysis, and it's completely sensible and tractably presented here. Jumping into the theorems would make a lot more sense now, given this context. Thanks.

This is an outstanding way for mathematicians to convey the elegance and importance of their work to the public, with the added bonus of being a palatable introduction to a tricky subject for mathematicians-in-training.

I hope the subtext got across -- the connection of the sphere to Mobius transformations of the plane is important because of its elegance and its practical utility as a tool for proving other concepts.

None of this made any sense when I was a senior-year undergraduate in complex analysis, and it's completely sensible and tractably presented here. Jumping into the theorems would make a lot more sense now, given this context. Thanks.

This is an outstanding way for mathematicians to convey the elegance and importance of their work to the public, with the added bonus of being a palatable introduction to a tricky subject for mathematicians-in-training.

I hope the subtext got across -- the connection of the sphere to Mobius transformations of the plane is important because of its elegance and its practical utility as a tool for proving other concepts.