...Over baseball diamonds, that is. Sunny day, with the temp above freezing most of the time. By late afternoon it was possible to walk around the neighborhood and park without creepers.

Fascinating article in the NYT about genetically engineered mosquitoes, designed so that they are immune to malaria and therefore can not pass it on to humans.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/science/gene-drive-mosquitoes-malaria.html?_r=0)

Sacre bleu! While I am opposed to genetically modified food, including the recently announced super salmon, I find this fascinating. And, adding to the fascination, is the technique of "gene drive" which pushes the genetic modification into the population very rapidly. Theoretically, malaria could be wiped from the face of the earth within a decade.

And this has me thinking about Asian carp. I'm wondering if using genetic engineering and gene drive it might be possible to turn them into super salmon. I'd try one then.

Oh, it's going to be a brave new world.