“Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy.” We’re talking human cells fused with rabbit eggs, pigs with human blood, and possibly mice with human brains…so far. Wolfman Jack was ahead of his time.
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Tricorders, anyone?
If this proposal for a handheld DNA scanner to instantly identify species doesn’t sound like a prototype tricorder to you, you’re not watching enough Star Trek.
Art from Nero’s palace
This caught my eye because of the Herculaneum column I wrote this week: in Rome, they continue to excavateNero’s buried palace, with unknown treasures still awaiting them in debris-choked halls and grottoes.
The scrolls of Herculaneum
On August 24, 79 AD, Italy’s Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii in ash and Herculaneum in super-hot mud. Among the buildings entombed in Herculaneum was a great villa, built more than a century earlier by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law, Lucius Calpurnius Piso. Under 30 metres of rock-hard mud, the villa was forgotten–until well-digging workmen rediscovered it …
Would you like juvenile political commentary with that?
So there I am in Timothy’s on Scarth Street in Regina, getting my morning cinnamon bun. Each day this particular coffee shop asks a trivia question; if you’re one of the first 10 people to get the correct answer, you win a gift certificate for a free cup of coffee. The answer to the previous …
The universe is doomed!
So why not leave?
Lunar colony to run on moon dust and robots
Anything that makes it more likely we can build lunar colonies is good news. I’m still hoping I might retire on the moon–1/6th gravity would be marvelous for old hearts, joints and bones, wouldn’t it? (Provided you never tried to return to Earth, of course…)
SF headline of the day…
Army Prepares ‘Robo-Soldier’ for Iraq. (Registration required, I think…)
The search for the lost library of Rome
Could an unbelievable intellectual treasure still be moldering away in the basement of an ancient Roman villa? Inquiring minds–and The Herculaneum Society–want to know!
My story, Between the Covers
No, that’s not an invitation to read my books in bed, although that’s a fine place to read them–any place is a fine place to read them. Between the Covers, in this instance, is the CBC Radio program, and I heard officially this week that they’re planning to present my short story “Strange Harvest” as …
Making plastics from oranges
Why make plastics from our precious limited supplies of petroleum, when you can make them from a renewable source like orange peels–and use up some carbon dioxide in the process?
Yeah, but how much will the cartridges cost?
University of Manchester researchers have developed a breakthrough technology that could allow made-to-measure skin and bones to be created using an ink-jet printer.
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