B: One of us, down in the lab, loves making high magnifications of fragments of dna fingerprints. He finds they are interesting, and decorative.
d: Only this, professor B?
B: No. Not only that... Mostly, the images magnified just appears pixelated. But in some cases, rarely, a motif appears.
d: And is it interesting?
B: Nothing that can distract us from the patenting fight, of course. But it's always the same motif, it's somewhat upsetting.
Q: Can you tell me what it is?
B: Look, this is it: ὕβϱις. Probably it is an artifact, but it strongly remembers a drawing, or a fragment of word.
d: And what does it mean?
B: Frankly, we don't know yet. But I trust, we are close to understand it.
Danny McCulloch, The grin of genomic grasslands, Tachyon, 2006. - Description by Dfyfd.
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