tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post112061824011336452..comments2023-10-31T07:32:11.739-04:00Comments on Wormtalk and Slugspeak: Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1121140188312236932005-07-11T23:49:00.000-04:002005-07-11T23:49:00.000-04:00OK; I think we have reached a consensus; you have ...OK; I think we have reached a consensus; <EM>you have to do the sheep project</EM>. I wonder if anyone's ever done DNA testing on the marrow from the many sheep in cthonic midden-shafts and bogs?Lisa Spangenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00916288400544629723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1121115618555537872005-07-11T17:00:00.000-04:002005-07-11T17:00:00.000-04:00Teagle Foundation. They got lots and are redirecti...Teagle Foundation. They got lots and are redirecting their giving programs. The new president is a cvlassicist (Thucydides guy) and may actually be interested...but you didn't hear it from me. :)Derek the Ænglicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11625110461660458291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1120931415962244572005-07-09T13:50:00.000-04:002005-07-09T13:50:00.000-04:00If it actually worked... that sheep project would ...If it actually worked... that sheep project would be <I>the coolest idea ever.</I> If you ever do it, I want to know about it.Nataliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07898457401179147102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1120796996099204052005-07-08T00:29:00.000-04:002005-07-08T00:29:00.000-04:00I'm honored that you think of me as an academic an...I'm honored that you think of me as an academic and "not a jerk" "who can write well." I'm not actually an academic (yet; I just graduated from college and plan to someday become a professor), but I like to think I'm a good writer and not a jack-ass.Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03301077496668834657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1120785315251073142005-07-07T21:15:00.000-04:002005-07-07T21:15:00.000-04:00I'm serious about the sheep project, but I don't k...I'm serious about the sheep project, but I don't know if you could get enough DNA from a cured hide. A colleague in biology thinks you could, since there would be nucleated cells and the tanning process might not have degraded the DNA, but you'd have to test to find out. Unfortunately I think that the British Library would not allow anything that might damage the manuscript (people are still upset over use of reagents in the 19th century). You'd have to be able to do it with a tiny scraping. But if there's DNA there, PCR would take care of it. <BR/>Wheaton now has a DNA sequencer and the college and the biology department would support the research. I wonder if I should apply to NEH, NSF, etc... What do you think?Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07566889846240013567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1120776486615783662005-07-07T18:48:00.000-04:002005-07-07T18:48:00.000-04:00I can't be sure just how tongue and cheek you're b...I can't be sure just how tongue and cheek you're being with your sheep project; Isuspect I'm about to publicly humiliate myself. I'm not sure that the mss. would actually provide appropriate genetic material for DNA extraction--generally one uses marrow in antique cases--but if the mss. would in fact provide appropriate DNA, I think you could probably get grants from both NEH and NSF. I can think of other likely sources for matching funding, and resources. There's useful overlap with humanists who are already doing cladistics research. Personally, I'd like to include cows too; Irish mss. seem to be bovine, or at least the ones I'm interested in, are bovine.Lisa Spangenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00916288400544629723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3571309.post-1120706760063856102005-07-06T23:26:00.000-04:002005-07-06T23:26:00.000-04:00Thanks so much for answering.Thanks so much for answering.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09854712830253883300noreply@blogger.com