The most head-fucking thing about this is not mentioned in the headline. The most amazing thing here is that this required no special skills, he just ordered the custom DNA strands from one website and the viruses to sneak them into his cells from another. Mixed them up in his dorm room and away he went.
DNA self-experimentation’s “holy crap!” stage seems to have lasted about 5 seconds before it went straight to Amazon Prime.
“at any point in the future, there will always be at least a few breeding pairs of Rockers in the UK, or Mods, or Goths” – William Gibson
“Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.” – Kierkegaard on the Individual vs. the Crowd, Why We Conform, and the Power of the Minority