If you are vegetarian, can you eat muscle tissue that’s been grown in a laboratory?
Burgers from a lab? US study says it’s possible… Read the rest
Month: July 2005 (Page 2 of 2)
I read Thomas Friedman’s early book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, when I was trying to get a handle on what people meant by “globalization.” I’d been told it was one of the pithiest, easiest to understand introductions to the topic available.… Read the rest
Google SMS is a handy tool — just send your query as an SMS message to 46645 (“GOOGL” on the phone keypad), and within a few seconds you’ll get an SMS or two with the answer. I tested this a few months ago and found it worked pretty well for queries like “price 20GB ipod,” “pizza 94401,” and “define haberdasher.”… Read the rest
Want to learn how to frail the old banjo? Patrick Costello wrote a couple of books on the topic last year, then gave away his books for free online. (You can still buy them on Amazon, though: just click on the book cover to the left.)… Read the rest
How quickly can you scan a grid of 20 seemingly unrelated images and guess the word used on Google’s image search that produced those pictures? Good fun!