March 05, 2006

"you can make solar cells in your kitchen

...and save the world"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell

Thanks Daniel- for the headsup. :-)

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February 07, 2006

change your sex

scientists have turned fish sperm into fish eggs and they are talking about implanting fertilizing eggs of one species into the womb of other species.   life all over earth could soon be known as an implant rather than a miracle.  this has good uses and bad uses.  the human god complex has just gotten more interesting and definitely more scary.

link

January 12, 2006

green glowing pigs

"Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark.  They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through.  The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo."

BBC article

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i'm not convinced this is a good idea to phuck with animals evolution like this.

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[thanks goes to Erek for forwarding this story to rune logix]