January 30, 2016 at 10:59PM

Today I Learned: 1) One of the developers of Titanfall spent his two-week vacation porting the game to Oculus rift, and the dev team tried it out. The conclusion? Titanfall was a terrible game for Oculus rift. Why? In Titanfall, you spent a lot of time moving very quickly and flying through the air, which is *terrifying* in Oculus rift. 2) Aphaenogaster cockerelli (the species of my new ants!) apparently like insects and seeds, but not sweet stuff like honey, fruit, or sugar water. 3) A few facts about genome sequencing: market price for a full-exome sequencing run, with analysis and interpretation, for a medical institution, is around $4,000; the most common way to get DNA for sequencing (again, in a medical context) is to extract it from blood. This seems a little crazy to me, since the vast majority of cells in blood have no DNA in them...; when DNA is purified and shipped before sequencing, rather than shipped in blood form, it is much more difficult to predict copy number variations, for reasons that are not entirely understood. Thanks Jeanne Morin-Leisk!