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welcome to the cotkey ride home for wednesday, February 17th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

A historical defense for arranging book collections by color.

Scientists have sequenced the oldest DNA ever found and made some mammoth discoveries in the process.

And NASA's Perseverance Rover is set to touch down on Mars tomorrow.

Some background on one experiment it will be running that could set the stage for human travel to the red planets.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

It's not a new debate, but it's one that's been rearing its head more often over the last year

as Zoom calls and remote televised interviews give us peek into people's homes. I am talking about the proper way to organize a

bookshelf. Now, of course, there are tons of different methods for organizing your books,

and which one you choose will have a lot to do with your collection, the space available in your

home, and ultimately the type of person you are. But there is one type of organizational method that's been growing

in popularity over the last decade that seems to particularly get a lot of people up in arms.

Organizing one's books by color. Jason posted a quick link on cocky.org today to a blog by

Alexander Alvis, aka Book Historia, which defends these

so-called rainbow shelves with some fascinating insights into the history of books. Alvis, who is a

legit book historian with a master's degree on the topic, something I didn't realize was a career option,

begins with a few reasons why Rainbow Shelds bug some people. Perhaps we still have a disconnect

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