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In the beginning was the word... - June 17, 2008

Having recently come across Wordle, a “toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text”, I wondered what would happen if you ran scientific things through it.

This is what happens. [Hat tip: Good Morning Silicon Valley.]

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This is the entirety of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (text from Darwin Online). Below the fold is the human genome.

Click on any image for a larger version.

First of all, for comparison to Darwin, the book of Genesis (King James version, from here).

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Here's the human genome paper published in Nature in 2001.

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Science's human genome paper, from the same time.

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