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Fri. 04/01 - Star Wars Kid: A New Hope

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The human genome has finally been completely sequenced––twenty-two years after the initial “essentially” complete version was published. Plus, in another early 2000s follow-up, the “Star Wars Kid” breaks his silence two decades later.

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    • Links:

    Completing the Human Genome Sequence (Again) (Scientific American) 
  • Scientists publish the first complete human genome (Reuters)
  • First complete gap-free human genome sequence published (The Guardian)
  • In the Shadow of the Star Wars Kid (Waxy)
  • Star Wars Kid (Know Your Meme)
  • 'Star Wars kid' emerges as an Internet hero (Los Angeles Times, 2003)
  • ‘Mystery of Marilyn Monroe’ Trailer: Was She Murdered? No Conspiracy Left Unturned in Netflix Doc (Indie Wire)
  • All the Details on Andrew Dominik's NC-17 Marilyn Monroe Biopic 'Blonde,' Starring Ana de Armas (Indie Wire)
  • Mind the Gap (Twenty Thousand Hertz)
  • Jackson Bird on Twitter

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