30 November 2015 - 1965

What should we put in the time capsule to be opened in 1965, 50 years ago? A newspaper would be full of Syria and global warming and prices that have inflated by a factor of 8, so we should go for science and technology. Well, but we wimped out on the moon base and machines to vacuum the floor or translate Russian are no good. I think we should send a Denisovan pinky bone and an optical disk of its genome—they’ll be flabbergasted at what we can do with DNA.