Is this the evidence that the satellite dish was a medieval (mediaeval) invention? Was Leonardo da Vinci responsible?

This picture was captured on the Ponte Vecchio, Florence (Firenze) in May 2008, by the bronze bust of Benvenuto Cellini.

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Brown is a man of conviction, apparently. He has urged MPs to vote for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, which comes before the Commons today. While I have enormous sympathy for his situation (his younger son has cystic fibrosis), I do not share his conviction that this is the answer.

No one has mentioned 'mitochondrial DNA', the reason that maternal influence on the embryo is greater than that of the male, who contributes no mitochondrial DNA. Let us not forget that the mother is, effectively, a cow, contributing bovine mitochondrial DNA. I don't believe that anyone knows what the consequences of this will be.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3956047.ece

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6661717.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/may/17/businessofresearch.medicineandhealth

http://davidvangend.blogspot.com/2006/08/animal-human-hybrid-clones-who-said.html (great headline!)

http://bda.org.uk/Human_Fertilisation&Embryology-i-102.html

What's the next step down this possibly very bumpy road?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parahuman

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