Po po ZOW!

I'm currently reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. I highly recommend it. It made me interested in science-something only two people have ever managed to do before. One was my high school physics teacher, Mr. Dennis Miller (um, not the comedian) and the other was my college astronomy professor, Dr. Eugene Brott. They were fantastic teachers, and taught similarly to how this book is written.

Anyway, the section I'm on now is talking about DNA and its purposes. It seems that a large percentage of our DNA doesn't actually do anything genetically. Something like 97 percent of it is considered "junk," or non-coding DNA.

The clumps of junk, Bryson says, quoting Matt Ridley's Genome: The Autobiography of a Species, are there "for the pure and simple reason that they are good at getting themselves duplicated."

Ohhh.

So that's why Kevin Federline exists.

I get it now!