Two stories that particularly caught my eye as I catch up on reading science magazines:

-From Technology Review: Geneticists are finding some surprising behavior in the genome. Apparently it's possible for living things to pass on genetic... effects, without actually passing down the seemingly relevant genes. For instance, female mice inherited ( Read more... )

http://sundaymagazine.org/2010/08/from-1890-the-first-text-messages/

Something fun: An article from 1890 about this newfangled concept of Acquaintances Made By the Telegraph Key, and Their Peculiar Conversational Abbreviations. *-** --- *-**