Genetically-engineered pigs have gotten the all clear. Digging into the field of galactic archaeology. And how Dippin’ Dots can help us better understand the leading COVID-19 vaccines, and may play a role of their own.

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Links:

• FDA approves genetically engineered pigs (The Verge)
• Gene editing has made pigs immune to a deadly epidemic (MIT Technology Review)
• Galactic archaeology: astronomers are using stars as fossils to study the Milky Way (Horizon Magazine)
• What the Dippin’ Dots ‘cold chain’ can teach us about COVID-19 vaccines (Popular Science)
• The world's now scrambling for dry ice. It's just one headache in getting coronavirus vaccines where they need to go (CNN)
• A vial, a vaccine and hopes for slowing a pandemic — how a shot comes to be (Washington Post)
• Dippin' Dots Cryogenics (Dippin’ Dots)
• Kottke.Org
• Jackson Bird on Twitter

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