Git and Github have revolutionized the way one creates, maintains and shares software code. It is said to be the Linus Torvald's second gift to the world, first obviously being the Linux operating system. Nowadays it is common for job seekers to showcase their work in the form of several github repositories so that various employers can evaluate the job seeker in a much better way. Open source projects are thriving because of easy to use git based social coding platforms.

Books such as these, give visual images that are necessary to make learning stick. It is fair to say that I do not remember anything much about cell biology nor anything related to DNA. It was way back in my high school that I had crammed something, held it in my working memory for a few years in order to write exams. Some bits would have percolated to my long term memory, but since I have never retrieved them, they lie somewhere in some inaccessible part of my brain.

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A quote often attributed to Gloria Steinem says: “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” Maker culture, with its goal to get everyone access to the traditionally male domain of making, has focused on the first. But its success means that it further devalues the traditionally female domain of caregiving, by continuing to enforce the idea that only making things is valuable.