Name: Dolly the sheep.

Name: Dolly the sheep.
A cloned sheep! Why would you ever want to clone a sheep? Don t all sheep look the same? Look, can I stop you there? Just because still Dolly the sheep is in the news again doesn t mean that you can get away with recycling the same lazy scraps of quasi-observational almost-comedy that didn t really work the last time she was in the news.
Then why are we talking about her again? Has she Frankensteined up out of the ground? Is there a zombie Frankenstein sheep-clone roaming the moors now? Should we all stay inside? It s nothing that exciting, sorry. She has earned herself a blue plaque.
Oh. But that s still quite exciting. The plaque will be installed at the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh her place of birth to for ever commemorate the important role she played in the advancement of science.
But aren t blue plaques supposed to recognise artists and poets and great thinkers? The traditional English Heritage plaques are, but this one has been organised by the Society of Biology , which is doling out 10 plaques to celebrate the eminent and sometimes unsung heroes of biology . Besides, Dolly is so much more impressive than all those other recipients.
She is? Sure. After all, Dame Myra Hess has a blue plaque, but all she ever did was play the piano. Dolly, meanwhile, conclusively taught us that God is dead and humanity is the ultimate master of its own destruction.
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