The more I think about this post, the more intrigued I am as to how you defend yourself against a violent customer using a DNA kit. Does it conceal a gun, or will busdrivers be able to turn notorious spitters into lettuces?
We already knew from a footnote in Marx’s Capital that the Scottish industrialist Peter Fairbairn, who based his life and business in Leeds and was city mayor, “discovered several very important applications of machinery to the construction of machines as a result of strikes in his own factory.” Now Oxford has digitised a number of…