[OT] Teamwork in Python Development

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> From the January Scientific American: the picture is better in the
    >> printed version

    Doug> http://www.sciam.com/2002/0102issue/010250100.html

Neat picture.  Interesting technique.

I actually found the blurb about antibiotics next to it both more
interesting and more disturbing however:

    Antibiotics are shown to speed the growth of chicks and turkeys, and
    U.S. raisers are now feeding them to poultry on a large scale. Mortimer
    P. Starr and Donald M. Reynolds, bacteriologists at the University of
    California, examined intestines of turkeys grown on a diet supplemented
    with streptomycin and found that it took only three days for a bacteria
    population completely resistant to the drug to appear. If the feeding of
    antibiotics produces resistant varieties of parasites such as
    Salmonella, the organism may not only poison human consumers but be
    immune to treatment with drugs.

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Skip Montanaro (skip at pobox.com - http://www.mojam.com/)