This is so late, because I am in Seattle this week.

Here’s an article about the woman behind the science on Orphan Black – she has had a really interesting life and it’s nice to know that the science in the show has some sorts of underpinnings:

Herter respects science; in some sense she is devoting her life to science. But the “‘yay, science!’ bandwagon” unnerves her. “It doesn’t question the underlying assumptions about the kinds of authority that we endow science with.”

http://blog.longreads.com/2015/06/24/science-chance-and-emotion-with-real-cosima/

Speaking of twins! Sort of. Here’s a list of twins with differing claims to fame:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_twins#Twins_with_differing_claims_to_fame

Lots of these seem to both be in acting and television, which I would not have expected. My favourites are the Levi-Montalcinis:

Rita, Nobel laureate in neurobiology (and first Nobel Laureate to live to over 100!):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini

Paola, painter and creator of kinetical and luminous structures:

http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/levi-montalcini-paola

Happy weekend,

Alex.