Here’s my email-to-Kiruna version of the story:
Calling all Rymdgymnasiet aliens and their mentors!
The MIT news office wrote up the story of the DNA auction and posted it this morning. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/wilczek.html
Now somebody else has already picked up the story: http://www.physorg.com/news3595.html
I’m sending you this email from Boston’s airport (I love wifi!) where we’re en route to the annual meeting of the Dutch Physical Society. They say it’s springtime there–I can hardly wait. Our own garden’s snow covering just barely melted and not even one crocus or daffodil has replaced it.
Best regards to all, and I hope you enjoy this story as much as I did,
Betsy