Chick magnet!
“Experiments for NASA space missions have shown that small amounts of edible meat can be created in a lab. But the technology that could grow chicken nuggets without the chicken, on a large scale, may not be just a science fiction fantasy.
In a paper in the June 29 issue of Tissue Engineering, a team of scientists, including University of Maryland doctoral student Jason Matheny, propose two new techniques of tissue engineering that may one day lead to affordable production of in vitro – lab grown — meat for human consumption. It is the first peer-reviewed discussion of the prospects for industrial production of cultured meat.”
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1098
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1098
http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1098
“So, have a major deadline looming or ripe opportunity closing and just don’t have time to waste playing Half Life 2 or checking Bloglines one last time? Well then, add Half Life 2 and Firefox to the list of programs you want to block in Temptation Blocker, set the timer for how long you want to block them and then hit the “Get Work Done!” button.
Now, everytime you try and access Half Life 2 or Firefox, you’ll get a dialog box telling you how much time you have left before you can access that program. During this blocked time, you can’t access those programs. You also can’t access Temptation Blocker during this time without entering in a random, 32-character string. This acts as a deterrent from you getting to your program before time is up, but it also let’s you access it if you really need to. (Note: During the blocked time, your Windows Task Manager is also disabled, in an attempt to save your from yourself and a quick Ctrl-Alt-Del. If you don’t like that idea, then you probably shouldn’t download the software).”
http://www.webjillion.com/archives/2005/08/01/free-software-temptation-blocker
http://www.webjillion.com/archives/2005/08/01/free-software-temptation-blocker
http://www.webjillion.com/archives/2005/08/01/free-software-temptation-blocker
“During the summer of 1950, on the outskirts of Harrisburg Pennsylvania U.S.A., my sister’s boyfriend ”Skip“ was sitting on the glider on the front porch of our house. He said to me – ”Hey Mike… bring me a sheet of paper.“ I answered why? and he responded with his make believe impatience ”Just bring it!“ I obeyed and he said that he was going to build the best paper airplane in the world. I was eight years old at the time and my meager knowledge of paper airplanes was the traditional flying wedge that spiraled into tight loops and fell head first to the ground.
When he started folding the paper, I knew this was something different, something special. He never explained how he did it but every move, every fold, every detail was burned into my memory. After he finished, we walked the porch handrail and he gently tossed it horizontally towards the street. It glided like no paper airplane I have ever seen before, it was acting like a REAL airplane. It gently curved into the slight breeze and began to rise vertically without moving forward. The craft then began to lower as if it were a helicopter and gently came to rest on the asphalt below.
Over the years, I have shown many eight year old children this paper plane. I don’t know if they will remember but I hope they pass the knowledge on.”
http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html
http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html
http://www.zurqui.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html
My so called life* 