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In Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker discussed his participation in the Personal Genome Project. (We’ll give you a minute to find our coverage of the PGP-10 from November.) Typically, we look at new frontiers in science and marvel how far we’ve come. Pinker’s account of his experience perfectly illustrates the amount of work still necessary to understand the mind-bogglingly complex machinery within us.

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Few acts in hip-hop's young guard come more correct than Berkeley, CA crew The Pack. Roiling, minimalist beats, raps about partying and sneakers, and a whispered menace that keeps you off guard: it's like degree zero of the art form. Sounds great on record (or Myspace), but can they rock an audience? Harper's Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave., Allston, 7:00 pm, $12/$14.