Monthly Archives: July 2005

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

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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! Guess the Google