Aussie geneticist wins wager over junk DNA

British computational biologist Ewan Birney, the lead analysis coordinator on the recent ENCODE project, has lost his bet with Australian geneticist John Mattick over how much of our DNA would be found to be 'functional'.

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Tony Bennett?s Daughter Johanna Announces First Time Fest Will Take Place In New York In March

Tony Bennetts Daughter Johanna Announces First Time Fest Will Take Place In New York In MarchFirst-time filmmakers will be celebrated at the inaugural First Time Fest, a film festival that will take place March 1-4, 2013.  At a reception at the Players Club in Gramercy Park on Thursday night, FTF founders Johanna Bennett, the actor and philanthropist daughter of singer Tony Bennett, and producer Mandy Ward (Palestine Blues), announced that they are seeking submissions for the fledgling festival, which will be based out of the arts organization that was founded by Edwin Booth and Mark Twain.  (Films will be screened at the Loews Village VII on Third Avenue and East 11th Street.) David Schwartz, the Artistic Director and Head Curator of Museum of the Moving Image is the festival's director of programming, and Mitch Levine, CEO of The Film Festival Group, will serve as an adviser. The festival's Grand Prize winner will receive an offer of theatrical distribution through Cinema Libre Studio (Fuel, Bloodline) in Canoga Park, CA.

Tony Bennetts Daughter Johanna Announces First Time Fest Will Take Place In New York In March

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Johnny Lewis Beat, Dismembered Cat To Death

Johnny Lewis murdered his landlady and then fell to his death -- but he also viciously took the life of the landlady's cat by beating it to death and DISMEMBERING it in the process ... TMZ has learned.TMZ broke the story that Lewis -- who appeared on…

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Fiona Apple -- Explains Her Drug Arrest ... In Most Bizarre Speech Ever [Video]

Fiona Apple says everyone at the Texas jail where she was booked for possession of marijuana treated her real nice ... everyone except FOUR PEOPLE -- and the singer remembers exactly who they are!!!Apple -- who was popped at the infamous Sierra Blanca…

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Source: http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/22/fiona-apple-arrest-houston-concert-video/

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See Britney Spears?s New Multicolored Mane

Isaac Brekken/Getty She’s gone blonde, brunette, even bald, but this is something we’ve never seen on Britney Spears before. The pop star debuted teal, blue and hot pink tips over the weekend at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. And Spears must have been happy with how her My Little Pony-inspired mane came out because [...]

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Mystikal -- If Music Fails ... I'M DOING PORN

Mystikal is giving music one last shot -- but tells TMZ, if he fails to make another hit on his next album ... HE'S TURNING TO PORN.This is not a joke. Mystikal tells us, he needs to make sure the money keeps coming in ... and if there's one thing he's…

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Source: http://www.tmz.com/2012/09/22/mystikal-porn-career/

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Chic Clicks: See Katy Perry?s Retro Mani, Kate Spade Does Stationery

Ramey –Leave it to Katy Perry to give us serious nail envy thanks to her new hand-painted Daria mani [Twitter] –In other nail news: Kelly Osbourne‘s Emmy manicure was worth $250,000 [Racked] –Kate Spade New York partnered with Paperless Post to create an adorably chic stationery line [Paperless Post] –See Glee star Jenna Ushkowitz get glam [...]

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