{"id":703,"date":"2013-08-15T01:41:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T05:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theroacheshavenoking.com\/RoachesBlog\/?p=703"},"modified":"2013-08-15T01:41:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T05:41:52","slug":"learn-about-diversity-kill-americans-and-send-in-the-bodies-for-dna-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Learn about diversity: kill Americans and send in the bodies for DNA analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/2013\/08\/15\/learn-about-diversity-kill-americans-and-send-in-the-bodies-for-dna-analysis\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-707\" alt=\"human-diversity-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/human-diversity-5.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The Rockefeller University announced a research project in its &#8220;Program for the Human Environment.&#8221; \u00a0It is enlisting science-minded high school students around the country to do the field work. \u00a0This is the project description:<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><em>What<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>High school students and other citizen scientists collecting and helping analyze Americans using DNA barcoding.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<h2><em>Why<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>Genetic diversity is a window into evolution and patterns of migration. Americans originated in Africa and hitchhiked around the world on commercial goods. This project asks:<\/em><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Do Americans differ genetically between cities?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Do US genetic types match those in other parts of the world?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Are there genetic types that represent undiscovered look-alike species?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>How<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p><em>To participate, collect a dead American.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2><em><strong>What you need<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>American (dead)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Specimen label with collection location, date<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Mailing materials<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><em><strong>What you get<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Thrill of scientific discovery with DNA<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Cool topic to talk about with friends<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>DNA sequences you can analyze to study evolution<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">All you <em>Homo sapiens <\/em>must\u00a0think this is either appalling, or a joke. In fact it is real. I made one small change. \u00a0From the official document I removed one word: roach. The project needs dead American roaches (<em>Periplaneta americana<\/em>).<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">And now you think it&#8217;s fine, right?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cockroachproject_html_m8e4677e.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-706\" alt=\"cockroachproject_html_m8e4677e\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cockroachproject_html_m8e4677e-300x81.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Humans make me sick.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rockefeller University announced a research project in its &#8220;Program for the Human Environment.&#8221; \u00a0It is enlisting science-minded high school students around the country to do the field work. \u00a0This is the project description: What High school students and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=703\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}