Anya ,'Empty Places'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
So I was scrolling, and I read this:
I was just watching an episode of Science's top 100 discoveries, and they mentioned the guy who discovered sperm. For the first time I am led to wonder about how that little discovery came about. Like, was he using his own spunk?
And then there was other stuff and then this:
Jessica, I think you might need an outsider to taste it as well
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I'm having Ethiopian food for lunch (will also have for dinner). nom nom nom.
Rupert Everett on the sidewalk beside me for a block and a half over lunch.
msbelle, you might want to check out the Lucy exhibit in Times Square. Along with the original Lucy bones, it has other artifacts from Ethopia, and all proceeds go to the Ethiopian Ministry of Culture.
Thinking about the moon landing, and a couple of weeks ago was the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, it's got me thinking about how much the world really was changing right then. It must have been terrifying!
If I had some time alone I might go, I cannot imagine convincing mac to go.
It must have been terrifying!
Assassinations, riots, protests, leaving the planet--yeah.
Some cool NASA photos in honor of Apollo 11: [link]
It must have been terrifying!
Being a teen in the 60s wasn't terrifying for me. Exciting really. I may have found it a bit more terrifying as a parent.
More fun news from Science!!
Scientists Find Way to Mass Produce Human Skin
This development from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Science Institute in Germany has made the creation of human skin much cheaper:
The basic skin production system, which Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft hopes to start selling next year, can produce 5,000 little swatches of human skin a month, for a total of over 600 square inches of mass-produced tissue. Each 0.12-square-inch section of skin would cost around $49 to produce, far less than the current cost.
The system, which should be available in 2010, is fully automated, with computers controlling the solution that the skin grows in, monitoring the vats for infection, guiding the blade that cuts the swatches, and even testing the quality of the final product. So far, this project has generated 19 patents for Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
Potential applications include not only helping burn victims, but replacing lab animals in product safety testing. Also, robots probably won’t have to forage as much for the taste of human flesh.
Being a teen in the 60s wasn't terrifying for me. Exciting really. I may have found it a bit more terrifying as a parent.
Oh yeah, definitely exciting! I can just imagine being a person who was happy with the status quo of the day...