Daily Reading (October 6th)

[ironed_orchid]

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

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[dhampyresa]

Some of my own writing and some of other people's.

[weaverbird]

Mostly work stuff. And Twitter, plus links.

[ironed_orchid]

I got caught up on dw/lj/fb, and spent about an hour each on twitter and tumblr, plus read some linked articles

[nanila]

Some Python documentation and a lot of code written by a summer student. Got it to work, anyway - still not sure the results it's producing are physically right, but it runs!

[fred_mouse]

I have completely ignored anything I'm already reading*, or should be reading, and started "Death comes to Pemberly" instead.

* except the book that lives in the 'loo. I've read another couple of pages of that.

[alexseanchai]

Well, by now it's yesterday, but I did read Seven Daughters of Eve, which is a 2001 book about mitochondrial DNA and human history. The 'Eve' of the title is Mitochondrial Eve, of course, and the seven daughters are the most-recent-common-maternal-ancestors of the seven mitochondrial-DNA family groups, into exactly one of which every person with European ancestry straight up the maternal line falls. (There's like thirty-three such women if we count worldwide, says the book. I guess focusing on Europe made it a more punchy title.)