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

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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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. Sponsors: DeVry University, Learn more at DeVry.edu/Future The Jordan Harbinger Show, jordanharbinger.com/start 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 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.4	The human genome has finally been completely sequenced, 22 years after the initial
0:48.0	essentially complete version was published.
0:50.4	Plus, in another early 2000s follow-up, the Star Wars Kid breaks his silence two
0:57.0	decades later. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.
1:04.1	22 years ago, a draft of the sequenced human genome was completed. It was a huge milestone achievement, and now,
1:13.6	after more than two decades, the complete sequence has finally been published. Quoting The Guardian,
1:19.9	until now, about 8% of the human genome was missing, including large stretches of highly
1:25.7	repetitive sequences, sometimes described as junk DNA.
1:30.0	In reality, though, these repeated sections were omitted due to technical difficulties in sequencing
1:35.4	them rather than pure lack of interest, end quote.
1:39.6	Eric Green, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, explained further in Scientific
1:45.6	American that scientists working on the original Human Genome Project never set out to sequence
1:51.7	all three billion human DNA bases. They wanted to be as comprehensive as possible, he says,
1:57.7	but they set practical bounds for themselves, preventing, quote, perfection
2:02.1	from becoming the enemy of the good, end quote. And I really appreciated hearing that. To know that
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